41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.” 49 “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” 50 But they did not understand what he was saying to them. 51 Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. (Luke 2:41-52)
Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem every year for the Festival of Passover, when Jesus was twelve years old, he also went. After the Passover, they returned to Nazareth, unaware that Jesus was still in Jerusalem. Later, they went to Jerusalem again and found Jesus in the temple. Jesus sat among the teachers, and the people were amazed at his wisdom and his answers, and his parents were also amazed. When his mother asked him why he had done this, he said, “Why were you searching for me? Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” The Lord Jesus is the Son of God, and He had to be in his Father’s house, to be about the Father’s business. At the time, Mary did not understand what the Lord Jesus meant, but she kept all these things in her heart. Other scriptures also mention that Mary kept the things in her heart when she did not understand them.
16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (Colossians 1:16-17)
These two verses say that that all things were created through the Lord Jesus. He is the Creator, not created. He co-created all things with God the Father, and therefore, at the age of twelve, he had already a lots of wisdom. He is both divine and human, and as a human being, he needed to grow in wisdom and stature, and he was obedient to his parents.
3 Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.” (Mark 6:3-4)
From the age of twelve until his baptism, trained disciples and preached the gospel, the Bible doesn’t record much about Jesus. It mentions that he was a carpenter, and there is verse mentions that his father is also a carpenter. The Lord Jesus was not respected in his own town, so he went to other places to preach, performing many miracles, and many people believed in him.
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