Luke 2:47

while all who heard Him were astonished at His intelligence and at the answers He gave.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

In Context

46On the third day they found Him in the Temple sitting among the Rabbis, both listening to them and asking them questions,

48When they saw Him, they were smitten with amazement, and His mother said to Him, "My child, why have you behaved thus to us? Your father and I have been searching for you in anguish."

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Cross References

Matthew 7:28When Jesus had concluded this discourse, the crowds were filled with amazement at His teaching,

Luke 2:18and all who listened were astonished at what the shepherds told them.

Luke 4:32And they were greatly impressed by His teaching, because He spoke with the language of authority.

John 7:46"No mere man has ever spoken as this man speaks," said the officers.

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 →

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