Seeking for him (αναζητουντες αυτον). Present participle of the same verb. This was all that was worth while now, finding the lost…

St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Evangelist, having said before that the Child grew and grew strong, verifies his own words when h…

At this intermediate age, Jesus might have been either with the women and children or with the men and older boys, the way the families were probab…

And when they found him not
In the company that came from Jerusalem with them, nor among any of their relations and …

It is for the honour of Christ that children should attend public worship. His parents did not return until they had stayed all the seven days of t…