Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:43
Had fulfilled the days - Eight days in the whole: one was the passover, and the other seven, the days of unleavened bread. See on Matthew 26:2 ; (note). read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:44
Supposing him to have been in the company - Some have supposed that the men and women marched in separate companies on these occasions, which is very likely; and that sometimes the children kept company with the men, sometimes with the women. This might have led to what otherwise seems to have been inexcusable carelessness in Joseph and Mary. Joseph, not seeing Jesus in the men's company, might suppose he was with his mother in the women's company; and Mary, not seeing him with her, might... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:45
Seeking him - Ζητουντες αυτον - or rather, seeking him diligently, αναζητουντες . This is the reading of BCDL, six others, Vulgate, and nine copies of the Itala. If they sought earnestly when they first found him missing, there is little doubt that their solicitude and diligence must be greatly increased during his three days' absence, therefore the word which I have adopted, on the above authority, is more likely to be the true reading than the ζητουντες of the common text, which... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:46
Sitting in the midst of the doctors - The rabbins, who were explaining the law and the ceremonies of the Jewish religion to their disciples. Asking them questions - Not as a scholar asks his teacher, to be informed; but as a teacher, who proposes questions to his scholars in order to take an occasion to instruct them. In the time of Josephus, the Jewish teachers were either very ignorant or very humble: for he tells us that, "when he was about fourteen years of age, the chief priests,... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:47
Answers: - The word αποκρισις here seems not to mean answers only, but what Jesus said by way of question to the doctors, Luke 2:46 . So in Revelation 7:13 , one of the elders is said to have answered, saying - when he only asked a question. Bp. Pearce. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:48
Why hast thou thus dealt with us? - It certainly was not his fault, but theirs. Men are very apt to lay on others the blame of their own misconduct. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:49
How is it that ye sought me? - Is not this intended as a gentle reproof? Why had ye me to seek? Ye should not have left my company, when ye knew I am constantly employed in performing the will of the Most High. My Father's business? - Εν τοις του πατρος μου , My Father's concerns. Some think that these words should be translated, In my Father's house; which was a reason that they should have sought him in the temple only. As if he had said, Where should a child be found, but in his... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:51
Was subject unto them - Behaved towards them with all dutiful submission. Probably his working with his hands at his reputed father's business, is here also implied: see on Luke 2:41 ; (note). No child among the Jews was ever brought up in idleness. Is not this the carpenter? was a saying of those Jews who appear to have had a proper knowledge of his employment while in Joseph's house. See the note on Matthew 13:55 . read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:52
Jesus increased in wisdom - See on Luke 2:40 ; (note). The following remarks, taken chiefly from Mr. Claude, on the foregoing subject, are well worth the reader's attention. I. The birth of Christ is announced to the shepherds. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:41
His parents went - every year - This was their constant custom, because positively enjoined by the law, Exodus 23:17 . But it does not appear that infants were obliged to be present; and yet all the men-children are positively ordered to make their appearance at Jerusalem thrice in the year, Exodus 34:23 . And our Lord, being now twelve years old, Luke 2:42 , accompanies his parents to the feast. Probably this was the very age at which the male children were obliged to appear before... read more