40And the child waxed, and was comforted, full of wisdom; and the grace of God was in him.
41And his father and mother went each year into Jerusalem, in the solemn day of pask.
42And when Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast day.
43And when the days were done, they turned again; and the child abode in Jerusalem, and his father and mother knew it not.
44For they guessing that he had been in the fellowship, came a day’s journey, and sought him among his cousins and his acknowledged or his known.
45And when they found him not, they turned again in to Jerusalem, and sought him.
46And it befell, that after the third day they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the doctors, hearing them and asking them.
47And all men that heard him, wondered on the prudence and the answers of him.
48And they saw, and wondered. And his mother said to him, Son, what hast thou done to us thus? Lo! thy father and I sorrowing have sought thee.
49And he said to them, What is it that ye sought me? knew ye not, that in those things that be of my Father or that be my Father’s, it behooveth me to be?
50And they understood not the word, which he spake to them.
51And he came down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And his mother kept together all these words, and bare them in her heart.
52And Jesus profited in wisdom, age, and grace, with God and men.