Re: Exactly what was Jesus doing in the temple

From: Jack Kilmon (jkilmon@historian.net)
Date: Thu Aug 05 1999 - 16:25:42 EDT


jacob cohen wrote:
>
> b greekers-
> Edgar, you asked
>
> Exactly what was Jesus doing in the temple (EN
> TWi hIERWi) when Luke records that the twelve year old was in the midst
> of the teachers AKOUNTA AUTWN KAI EPERWTWNTA AUTOUS?
>
> Jesus parents took him to the Temple for the first time because His
> 13th birhtday was drawing nigh. It was the tradition at that time that
> as your Bar Mitzva comes you are required to go to the temple yourself
> your parents can't go for you but because you are now a "son of the Law"
> the resposibility(sic) of the law is upon you.

The 12 year old Jesus would have reached the "age of discrimination
and taking vows."

Jack

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