[JESUS & DEPENDENCE] 3. Jesus in His Father's House (POJ 3.3)

Paul, Robert and Liz continue their series on Jesus' dependence on his heavenly Father, looking at how Jesus gets separated from his family and winds up in the Temple when he is 12 years old.

"This is the last glimpse we get of Jesus in his childhood. He would have been considered a man at age 13. It's a wonderful glimpse of their nuclear family. We see Mary come alive as a person."

"A super-spiritual, icon-like Mary would probably just embrace Jesus quietly and sob, but here she is such a recognizably human mother!"

"Jesus learned to read and write from a very early age. Jesus is at the temple – they had one room just for instruction -- he's talking to the teachers of the law. There's a pattern we see already. He's listening to them and asking questions. And they're amazed at his understanding, so they're asking him questions, too. It's a true dialogue! That pattern of asking questions and understanding will be his for his whole life."