Luke 2:46
After three days, they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
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45When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.
47And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
Cross References
Matthew 16:21From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised up.
Luke 2:44They assumed that he was in the company of travelers, so they went a day's journey before they began looking for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
Acts 5:34but a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was held in honor by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and gave orders to put the apostles outside for a little while.
Matthew Henry on Luke 2:42-52
Christ Sitting with the Doctors. 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. 44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. 45 And when they found him not,… Read the whole commentary →