Verse 43
43. as they returned—If the duties of life must give place to worship, worship, in its turn, must give place to them. Jerusalem is good, but Nazareth is good, too; let him who neglects the one, on pretext of attending to the other, ponder this scene.
tarried behind . . . Joseph and his mother knew not—Accustomed to the discretion and obedience of the lad [OLSHAUSEN], they might be thrown off their guard.
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