Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. New Living Translation Three days later they finally discovered him in the Temple, sitting among the religious teachers, listening to them and asking questions. English Standard Version After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Berean Standard Bible Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Berean Literal Bible And it came to pass after three days, they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them. King James Bible And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. New King James Version Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. New American Standard Bible Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. NASB 1995 Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. NASB 1977 And it came about that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions. Legacy Standard Bible And it happened that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. Amplified Bible Three days later they found Him in the [court of the] temple, sitting among the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. Christian Standard Bible After three days, they found him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Holman Christian Standard Bible After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. American Standard Version And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions: Aramaic Bible in Plain English After three days, they found him in The Temple as he sat in the midst of the Teachers and he heard from them and he was inquiring of them. Contemporary English Version Three days later they found Jesus sitting in the temple, listening to the teachers and asking them questions. Douay-Rheims Bible And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking them questions. English Revised Version And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions: GOD'S WORD® Translation Three days later, they found him in the temple courtyard. He was sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions. Good News Translation On the third day they found him in the Temple, sitting with the Jewish teachers, listening to them and asking questions. International Standard Version Three days later, they found him in the Temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and posing questions to them. Literal Standard Version And it came to pass, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them, Majority Standard Bible Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. New American Bible After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, NET Bible After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. New Revised Standard Version After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. New Heart English Bible It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions. Webster's Bible Translation And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. Weymouth New Testament On the third day they found Him in the Temple sitting among the Rabbis, both listening to them and asking them questions, World English Bible After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. Young's Literal Translation And it came to pass, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Boy Jesus at the Temple…45When they could not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him. 46Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47And all who heard Him were astounded at His understanding and His answers.… Cross References Luke 2:45 When they could not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him. Luke 2:47 And all who heard Him were astounded at His understanding and His answers. Luke 5:17 One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick. John 3:10 "You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and you do not understand these things? Acts 5:34 But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time. 1 Timothy 1:7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert. Treasury of Scripture And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. after. Luke 2:44,45 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance… 1 Kings 12:5,12 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed… Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. the doctors. Luke 5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Acts 5:34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; both. Isaiah 49:1,2 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name… Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. Jump to Previous Anxious Doctors Ear Find Found Hearing Inquiry Jerusalem Listening Making Midst Putting Questioning Questions Seated Sitting Teachers Temple Three Unable Wise WordsJump to Next Anxious Doctors Ear Find Found Hearing Inquiry Jerusalem Listening Making Midst Putting Questioning Questions Seated Sitting Teachers Temple Three Unable Wise WordsLuke 2 1. Augustus taxes all the Roman empire.6. The nativity of Jesus. 8. An angel relates it to the shepherds, and many sing praises to God for it. 15. The shepherds glorify God. 21. Jesus is circumcised. 22. Mary purified. 25. Simeon and Anna prophesy of Jesus, 39. who increases in wisdom, 41. questions in the temple with the teachers, 51. and is obedient to his parents. (46) Sitting in the midst of the doctors.--A chamber of the Temple was set apart as a kind of open free school. The "doctors" or teachers--famous "doctors of the Law" (Acts 5:34)--sat "in Moses' seat;" the older students on a low bench; the younger on the ground, literally "at the feet" of their instructor. The relation between master and scholar was often one of affectionate reverence and sympathy, and was expressed by one of the famous scribes in a saying worth remembering, "I have learnt much from the Rabbis, my teachers; I have learnt more from the Rabbis, my colleagues; but from my scholars I have learnt most of all." It is interesting to think that among the doctors then present may have been the venerable Hillel, then verging upon his hundredth year; his son and successor, Simeon; his grandson, the then youthful Gamaliel; Jonathan, the writer of the Chaldee Targum or Paraphrase of the Sacred Books; and Shammai, the rival of Hillel, who "bound" where the latter "loosed." Both hearing them, and asking them questions.--The method of teaching was, we see, essentially and reciprocally catechetical. The kind of questions current in the schools would include such as, What is the great commandment of the Law? What may or may not be done on the Sabbath? How is such a precept to be paraphrased; what is its true meaning? As the Targum of Jonathan included the books of Joshua, Judges 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve Minor Prophets, the questions may probably have turned also on the meaning of prophecies, the expectations of the Christ, and the like. The legends of the Apocryphal Gospels make the wisdom of the child Jesus take a wide range over astronomy and other sciences. Verse 46. - And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple. According to the common way of reckoning among the Hebrews, this expression, "after three days," probably means "on the third day." One day was consumed in the usual short pilgrim-journey. His absence at first would excite no attention; on the second, as they missed him still, they sought him in the various pilgrim-companies; and on the day following they found him in the temple courts, with the doctors of the Law. Sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. In the temple enclosure, says the Talmud, there were three synagogues - one at the gate of the court of the Gentiles, another at the entrance of the court of the Israelites, a third in the south-east part of the inner court: it was in these that the rabbis expounded the Law. Among the famous doctors, or rabbis, then living and teaching in Jerusalem, were the famous Hillel, then very aged, verging, we are told, on his hundredth year; his almost equally illustrious rival, Shammai; Gamaliel, the master of Saul of Tarsus; Jonathan, the compiler of the Chaldee Paraphrase of the sacred books; Simeon, the son and successor of Hillel; Nicodemus, who, some years afterwards, came to Jesus by night, and, when the end was come, reverently assisted in laying the King's Son with all honor in his tomb in Joseph of Arimathaea's garden. We may, with great probability, assume that amongst those "doctors" whom the Boy questioned at that Passover Feast, some if not all of these well-known men were sitting. The apocryphal Gospels, as usual, profess to give us details where the true story is reverently silent. The 'Gospel of Thomas' (second century), for instance, tells us that Jesus, when on the road to Nazareth, returned of his own accord to Jerusalem, and amazed the rabbis of the temple by his solution of the hardest and most difficult questions of the Law and the prophets. In an Arabic Gospel of somewhat later date than that of Thomas, we find the Boy even teaching the astronomers the secrets of their own difficult study. Probably Stier's simple words approach the nearest to the truth here, when he suggests that his questions were "the pure questions of innocence and of truth, which keenly and deeply penetrated into the confused errors of the rabbinical teaching."Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Finally,Καὶ (Kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. after μετὰ (meta) Preposition Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives. three τρεῖς (treis) Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 5140: Three. Or neuter tria a primary number; 'three'. days ἡμέρας (hēmeras) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. they found εὗρον (heuron) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 2147: A prolonged form of a primary heuro, which heureo is used for it in all the tenses except the present and imperfect to find. Him αὐτὸν (auton) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. in ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. the τῷ (tō) Article - Dative Neuter Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. temple courts, ἱερῷ (hierō) Noun - Dative Neuter Singular Strong's 2411: Neuter of hieros; a sacred place, i.e. The entire precincts of the Temple. sitting καθεζόμενον (kathezomenon) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 2516: To be sitting, sit down, be seated. From kata and the base of hedraios; to sit down. among ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. the τῶν (tōn) Article - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. teachers, διδασκάλων (didaskalōn) Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 1320: A teacher, master. From didasko; an instructor. listening to ἀκούοντα (akouonta) Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear. them αὐτῶν (autōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. asking them questions. ἐπερωτῶντα (eperōtōnta) Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 1905: To interrogate, question, demand of. From epi and erotao; to ask for, i.e. Inquire, seek. 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