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Well its all part of the Trinity … The Farther, The Son, and the Holy Ghost …
This can be a hard concept to Visualise… but thats the way it is…
You can get good answers is you research a little on Google… well I did anyway
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This question has been dissected in threads before. I grew up with the concept of the smiling baby Jesus on Mary’s lap blessing St. Joseph that the nuns showed us back then. Somehow most people don’t think it worked quite that way, and I don’t either as an adult–but the truth is, anyone who tells you that they know for sure is wrong–as none of us know for sure. Jesus was true GOD AND true MAN. As such, He obviously had the mind of a 6 month old when He was 6 months old. He most likely did NOT converse with Mary as she laid Him in the manger. In the NT it specifically says that in the temple when Mary and Joseph found Him he remarked that"He must be about His Father’s work." It definitely appears to me that He knew something by then, about age 12–and then if you remember, it speaks of Jesus returning home with Mary and Joseph and that he grew in wisdom and so on.

The last time this was discussed, someone stated that at Jesus’ Baptism is when His “mission” was fully revealed to him–when the Spirit came in the form of a dove and God the Father spoke saying “This is my beloved Son…” Okay, maybe. But I suspect He knew when he came to be baptized already by the way He spoke to the Baptist when John didn’t want to Baptize him. Also, remember when He returned to His hometown after He began his ministry, the NT says that he didn’t perform miracles there because the whole town saw him as just Jesus–the carpenter’s kid and didn’t have faith in Him.So, He must have lived pretty much like any other young jewish boy of the time–though what he did or didn’t know inside—well, who can say? So there’s different possibilities, obviously.

I don’t know when Jesus the man and Jesus the Son knew the full entireity of the future and “the plan”. If the Holy Spirit could come to Mary and cause the Son of God to become human–almost anything is possible. And I think it’s one of those things that we weren’t meant to know now—or more than just the last 3 years of Jesus’ life would be discussed in detail in scripture.
 
Phil_Marinus said:
You can get good answers is you research a little on Google… well I did anyway
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You can find any answer you want on Google. I would suggest searching Catholic Answers Forums, but some misinformation exists even here. If you further narrow your search to the Ask An Apologist section, you might get more reliable answers. I tried that just now, and found these:
 
Beryllos said:
You can find any answer you want on Google. I would suggest searching Catholic Answers Forums, but some misinformation exists even here. If you further narrow your search to the Ask An Apologist section, you might get more reliable answers. I tried that just now, and found these:
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Many thanks for this… Google reins supreme for my thirst for knowledge ,
But, it’s not everything,
Il have a good look tomorrow,… Thanks
 
Phil_Marinus said:
Many thanks for this… Google reins supreme for my thirst for knowledge ,
But, it’s not everything,
Il have a good look tomorrow,… Thanks
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Yes, Google is an amazing tool. I use it all the time. Often one must critically examine the search results, because Google is not able to assess the accuracy of the web pages it finds. There are many misinformed and misleading web sites out there, so let the seeker beware!
 
He certainly knew that He was the Son of God by the time that He was found in the temple “doing my Father’s work”. Did he know as an infant? We know that John the Baptist recognized Jesus when they were both still in their mothers’ wombs.(Luke 1:41) If John the Baptist had such knowledge, it makes sense that the child Jesus did as well.
 
PaulfromIowa said:
He certainly knew that He was the Son of God by the time that He was found in the temple “doing my Father’s work”. Did he know as an infant? We know that John the Baptist recognized Jesus when they were both still in their mothers’ wombs.(Luke 1:41) If John the Baptist had such knowledge, it makes sense that the child Jesus did as well.
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Excellent point.👍
 
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