⁴¹ And his father and mother went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of Easter. ⁴² And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. ⁴³ And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned home, the child Jesus bode still in Jerusalem, unknowing to his father and mother. ⁴⁴ For they supposed he had been in the company, and therefore came a day's journey, and sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. ⁴⁵ When they found him not, they went back again to Jerusalem, and sought him. ⁴⁶ And it fortuned, after three days, that they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors: both hearing them, and posing them. ⁴⁷ And all that heard him marveled at his wit and answers. ⁴⁸ And when they saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said unto him, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee, sorrowing."

⁴⁹ And he said unto them, "How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must go about my father's business?" ⁵⁰ And they understood not the saying that he spake to them.

⁵¹ And he went with them, and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart. ⁵² And Jesus increased in wisdom and age, and in favour with God and man.