From 43f08ef84e73e8116c9c4d2484dc1e18b73d9713 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:15:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Luke 2:41-52 --- content/bible_journal/luke_2:41-52.md | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/luke_2:41-52.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_2:41-52.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_2:41-52.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a1113f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_2:41-52.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 2:41–52" +date = "2022-10-25" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk2.41-52) + +Fast forward twelve years. Mary and Joseph take their family to Jerusalem to +celebrate the Passover, as they have done every year. When the feast is over, +though, they accidentally leave Jesus behind. They get as far as stopping for +the night with the group they are traveling with and finally realize he isn't +there. + +They go back to Jerusalem to search. "After three days" could mean they spent +three days searching, or that he was separated from them for three days. This +sequence makes sense to me: a day of travel out, a day of travel back, and a +day of searching before looking in the temple courts. But that is where he is, +discussing with the teachers. The teachers are amazed at his answers, but Mary +comes in and tries to bring a guilt trip on him. (Understandably. I'd be upset +too if it took me three days to find my child.) Jesus doesn't get defensive, +but merely states that he was doing what was necessary. + +It's like he expected them to know where he had been the whole time. Usually I +have heard this interpreted as "he's the Messiah, of course he needs to be in +the temple doing God's work. Why didn't Mary and Joseph remember that?" There +might be an element of that, but I don't think there were constant reminders +that Jesus was special in his everyday life. He was perfect and sinless, yes, +but the Magi visited about ten years ago, and things had settled down since the +family vacation in Egypt. More likely, I think, is that Mary and Joseph had +their plans, Jesus had his plans, and somehow these things were not +communicated clearly enough. It's hard to tell when Luke doesn't tell us all +that was said. But in the end Jesus returns home with his parents and obeys +them as he should. + +* * * + +Help make it so that learning about You is the normal, expected thing for +people to do.