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Each year his parents went to
Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old,
they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its
days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem,
but his parents did not know it. Thinking that he was in the
caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives
and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look
for him.
After three days they found him in the
temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking
them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding
and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and
his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your
father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety." And
he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that
I must be in my Father's house?" But they did not
understand what he said to them.
He went down with them and came to
Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things
in her heart.
(Luke 2:41-51)
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