Disappearance of Jesus in the temple

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Was Jesus reprimanding his parents when they found him in the temple? Must have been really scary for anyone to lose their child for 3 days.
 
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Was Jesus reprimanding his parents when they found him in the temple?
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No, he was just being a teenager (age 12 then was probably like age 16 now). He did go home with them and be obedient to them, so there’s that.
He might also have been genuinely surprised they didn’t realize where he was.
 
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Was Jesus reprimanding his parents when they found him in the temple? Must have been really scary for anyone to lose their child for 3 days.
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It is one of the meditations in the Chaplet of Seven Sorrows of Mary.
 
Mary said, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.”

Doesn’t that sound like a Jewish mother?
 
They probably couldn’t write what she really said…
“ You’re killing me! I could have had a heart attack and died, I was so worried. Moshe never did that to his mother! Don’t ever scare me like that again!”

😂😂😂
 
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To me it sounds like a misunderstanding. I often think there is more to this story and that the timing and subject matter of the debate with the teachers of the law must have been of special significance.
 
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I wonder if they spanked Jesus.
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Jews don’t spank! They potch him on the tuchus! Yiddish mamas at least. If I ever heard from Mary, it had better be in a New York Yiddish accent or I won’t believe it’s really her! 😂😂😂
 
It does seem odd that He lacked awareness on such a human level. I just don’t see Him telling His parents that He didn’t know something that He did know.
 
Or Jesus was giving Mary a taste of His Passion and Resurrection. Remember they found Him on the third day.
 
Even though He was just 12, I rather think of it as God in the Flesh testing His earthly parents. It seems to me that a high percentage of misunderstanding of scripture deals with how God tests His creations. From Abraham onward, it is an ongoing process of testing. Moses, David, Solomon, Job, Tobit etc.

I appreciate the way in which Monsignor Ronald A. Knox phrased it in his translation of the Book of Tobit

Tobit 12:13
“Then, because thou hadst won his favour, needs must that trials should come, and test thy worth.”

It is even nicely phrased in the Catholic Living Bible, of all places:

Tobit 12:13
“Because you found favor with God, it was necessary that your faith should be tested.”
 
Does this mean we can say even the Son of God has teen angst or is this something I need to take to confession now?
 
It seems Jesus was ready to begin His public ministry and that was stopped.
 
It’s understood to be a foreshadowing for Mary of Jesus’ death, when she “lost” him to death for 3 days and then found him again the 3rd day when he rose.
 
Jesus’ human nature was not all-knowing. When he was a baby, he needed to learn to walk and talk; when he was a young man, he would have needed to learn things like carpentry skills and social etiquette. As someone else said, he may not have realized his parents didn’t know things he himself took for granted, possibly because he had private revelations or calls from his Heavenly Father.
 
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Q: Being a Divine Person with two natures, does this not tend to pull at the weave of the hypostatic union? It seems very clear that He knew Who His Father was and that He should attend to the Father’s business. Yet, to devleop in a fully human manner, and in respect of the commandments, He would have to obey until the day.
 
He states in the Gospel that only his Father knows when the world will end - “the Son” doesn’t know (Mark 13:32).

I’m not a philosopher or a theologian. My impression from the Gospel stories is that Jesus lived the life of a human on earth, which meant he grew in learning and wisdom as a human child and young man would. The Scripture says this (Luke 2:40-52). Jesus also seems to have wrestled with temptation and spent time contemplating how best to carry out his Father’s will.

So I may be expressing something in the wrong terms here but i think it’s pretty clear what I’m getting at.
 
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