Luke 2:50 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 2:50

But they did not understand the statement He was making to them.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

KJV

And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

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Commentary

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Origen of Alexandria

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (253)

Or they knew not whether when He said about my Father's business, He referred to the temple, or something higher and more edifying; for every one of us who doeth good, is the seat of God the Father; but whoso is the seat of God the Father, has Christ in the midst of him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

It is observable that Joseph is not mentioned after this time; whence it is probable, he did not live long after.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

They understood not ... - It is remarkable that they did not understand Jesus in this, but it shows how slow persons are to believe. Even his parents, after all that had taken place, did not seem to comprehend that “he” was to be the Saviour of people, or if they did, they understood it in a very imperfect manner.

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

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
αὐτοὶ	autoi	they themselves	G846 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
συνῆκαν	sunēkan	understood	G4920 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ῥῆμα	rhēma	declaration	G4487 →
ὃ	ho	that	G3739 →
ἐλάλησεν	elalēsen	He spoke	G2980 →
αὐτοῖς.	autois	to them.	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

The walk8

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
Luke 18:34
But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.
leads to
- Luke 9:45
  But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Mark 9:32
  But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 24:25
  Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
- John 10:6
  Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
Through
Mark 9:32
But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.
leads to
- John 12:16
  At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things had also been written about…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Luke 18:34
  But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 16:19
  Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while…
- Mark 9:10
  So they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead.