Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:47
Answers: - The word αποκρισις here seems not to mean answers only, but what Jesus said by way of question to the doctors, Luke 2:46 . So in Revelation 7:13 , one of the elders is said to have answered, saying - when he only asked a question. Bp. Pearce. read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:46
Sitting in the midst of the doctors - The rabbins, who were explaining the law and the ceremonies of the Jewish religion to their disciples. Asking them questions - Not as a scholar asks his teacher, to be informed; but as a teacher, who proposes questions to his scholars in order to take an occasion to instruct them. In the time of Josephus, the Jewish teachers were either very ignorant or very humble: for he tells us that, "when he was about fourteen years of age, the chief priests,... read more