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Luk 2:43. [Τελειωσάντων, when they had completed (fulfilled). It is not always profitable to be satisfied with what is trite and customary.-V. g.-ὑπέμεινεν, tarried behind) We may presume, on chronological grounds, that this happened on a Sunday. Thus then we have the prelude to the subsequent celebration of the Lord’s day.-Harm., p. 58.]-Ἰησοῦς ὁ ταῖς, the boy Jesus) Luke describes in successive order, καθεξῆς [as he promises in his preface, ch. Luk 1:3], Jesus as the fruit of the womb, ch. Luk 1:42; as the babe, ch. Luk 2:12; the child, Luk 2:40; the boy, in this ver.; the man (ἀνὴρ προφήτης, a man that was a prophet), ch. Luk 24:19, with which comp. Joh 1:30. His full stature was not manifested at once, as in the case of the First-formed Man; but He hallowed by participation all the successive steps of human life. Old age (alone) was unsuitable to Him.-καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω, and did not know) Jdg 14:6; Jdg 14:9 (the Antitype to Samson, who told not his father and mother the first of the mighty acts he did in the Spirit). [Jesus might have informed them of the fact by a single word; but it was becoming that His wisdom should be proved demonstratively in their absence. For thus He showed, that He was not indebted to them for the wisdom which He had: comp. Luk 2:50. He gave satisfactory proof thereby, that it was not they, but Himself, who was fully adequate to direct Himself, and that His subjection to them, Luk 2:51, is of the freest kind.-V. g.]