[sodpoodle]

This is just an excerpt -too difficult to reduce. The published date is not shown. I found the article very interesting.

Merry Christmas and God Bless.

[Tell It Right]

Great stuff about the importance of family and community!

Jesus was "Home Alone" in His Father's house before Macaulay Culkin was. LOL

[Socon-Econ]

In those days, the modern notion of a goofy “teenager” did not exist. You were either a boy or a man. And dissing your parents could get you stoned.

[Vigilanteman]

He also learned a useful trade.

[RoosterRedux]

Like many accounts about Jesus, his remaining in Jerusalem at the Synagogue raises many questions that are not answered in Scripture and defy speculation.

Jesus was obviously already mature and independent at the time of this vignette, but why would He allow his parents to leave town without him? Given that He did nothing without forethought and meaning, He might have been sending a message to Mary and Joseph (and us) about His future and destiny. But then, who knows?

As some Bible scholars have said, much about Jesus in the Bible is still very mysterious...and this adds to the authority of the Bible because no one would have composed a fiction like this. It leaves the reader hanging with more questions than it answers. In other words, like fact, not fiction (i.e., it is what it is).

[Craftmore]

Scripture doesnt tell us if He was punished or what else Mary and Joseph said.However I find it very telling that He never left again till He was 30,,,,