Luke 2:43 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 2:43

When those days were over and they were returning home, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but His parents were unaware He had stayed.

BSB

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ASV

and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and his parents knew it not;

KJV

And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Had fulfilled the days - The days of the Passover. These were eight days in all - one day for killing the paschal lamb, and seven days for the observance of the feast of unleavened bread, Exo 12:15; Lev 23:5-6.

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J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

These verses should always be deeply interesting to a reader of the Bible. They record the only facts which we know about our Lord Jesus Christ during the first thirty years of His life on earth, after His infancy. How many things a Christian would like to know about the events of those thirty years, and the daily history of the house at Nazareth! But we need not doubt that there is wisdom in the silence of Scripture on the subject. If it had been good for us to know more — then more would have been revealed.

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Hebraic traditional view

Why a boy from Galilee was in Jerusalem

The Law asked every Israelite male to appear in Jerusalem three times a year, Passover chief among them (Deuteronomy 16:16). Galilean families like Joseph's traveled in large caravans of relatives and neighbors: several days on the road each way. That is why Jesus' parents could travel a full day assuming He was “in the company”: a caravan was a moving village. The Mishnah's tractate on the festival visit opens with exactly who was obligated to make this trip (Chagigah 1:1): men were bound, women and children came freely, and Mary came.

Sources: Deuteronomy 16:16 (the pilgrimage command) · Mishnah Chagigah 1:1 (who must appear)

Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τελειωσάντων	teleiōsantōn	when having completed	G5048 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ἡμέρας	hēmeras	days	G2250 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
ὑποστρέφειν	hupostrephein	returning	G5290 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	of them	G846 →
ὑπέμεινεν	hupemeinen	remained behind	G5278 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
παῖς	pais	boy	G3816 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
Ἰερουσαλήμ,	Ierousalēm	Jerusalem,	G2419 →
καὶ	kai	But	G2532 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔγνωσαν	egnōsan	knew	G1097 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
γονεῖς	goneis	parents	G1118 →
αὐτοῦ.	autou	of Him.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 12:15
For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 16:3
  You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you…
- Genesis 17:14
  But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
- Exodus 23:15
  You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was…
- Exodus 34:18
  You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the…
- Deuteronomy 16:8
  For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
Through
2 Chronicles 25:17
Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent word to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.
leads to
- 2 Kings 14:8–14
  Then Amaziah sent messengers to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.
- Proverbs 20:3
  It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.
- 2 Chronicles 25:13
  Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had dismissed from battle raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down 3,000 people and carried off a great deal of plunder.