Luke 2:46
It came about that after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
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45When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem and started looking for him there.
47All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had instructed when he said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
Isaiah 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me a tongue as one of those who are taught, 1 so that I speak a sustaining word to the weary one; 1 he wakes me morning by morning; he awakens my ear to hear like those who are taught. 1
Matthew 16:21From that time Jesus started to tell his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, suffer many things at the hand of the elders and chief priests and scribes, be killed, and be raised back to life on the third day.
Luke 2:44They assumed that he was with the group that was traveling with them, so they traveled a day's journey. Then they started looking for him among their relatives and friends.
Acts 5:34But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up and commanded the apostles to be taken 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 →