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Luke 2:41-52
The Pulpit Commentary on Luke 2:41-52
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Luke 2:1-52EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Luke 2:39-52The childhood and the waiting-time. Before the age of twelve, nothing is told. In modern biographies, all kinds of traits, incidents, forecasts of the man in the child, are mentioned. The Apocryphal Gospels fall in with…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Luke 2:41-52It is for the honour of Christ that children should attend on public worship. His parents did not return till they had stayed all the seven days of the feast. It is well to stay to the end of an ordinance, as becomes th…Matthew HenrycommentaryChrist Sitting with the DoctorsCHRIST SITTING WITH THE DOCTORS. We have here the only passage of story recorded concerning our blessed Saviour, from his infancy to the day of his showing to Israel at twenty-nine years old, and therefore we are concer…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Luke 2:41Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. The Law required the attendance of all men at the three great Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16:16). The dispersion…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Luke 2:41-52The visit of Jesus to Jerusalem when a Boy. We now proceed to the solitary circumstance in the Child-life of Jesus which is given in the Gospels. He had been growing for twelve years in strength and in spirit, and the L…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Luke 2:42And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. When a Jewish boy was three years old he was given the tasselled garment directed by the Law (Numbers 15:38-41; Deuteronomy 22:1…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Luke 2:43And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the Child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem. The feast lasted seven days. Now, a boy in the East, twelve years old, is usually far more advanced than is ever the c…Joseph S. Exell and contributors