After three days. This means, probably, on the third day after they had left Jerusalem—that is, on the first day they went toward Galilee,…

Sitting in the midst of the doctors.—A chamber of the Temple was set apart as a kind of open free school. The “doctors” or teacher…

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…

Sitting in the midst of the doctors—Rays of divine brightness must have evidently shone in this child: otherwise, those haughty men would …

And it came to pass, that after three days
From their first setting out from Jerusalem, when Jesus tarried behind; o…

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…