AD 9 · Life of Christ

The boy Jesus in the temple

At twelve, Jesus sat among the teachers in the temple, and answered his parents, Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house? (Luke 2:46-49). About AD 9 by arithmetic from the 4 BC birth.

📖 Luke 2:41–43

41Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. 42And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast. 43When those days were over and they were returning home, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but His parents were unaware He had stayed.

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