exegetes one and all
yes we will hopefully begin to place the exegesis course here in organized form.
when Jesus was 12 he went A. to a ball game. B. to the park. C. To Jerusalem.
We would say he was now a bar mitzvah or Son of A. don't even go there. B. Thunder. C. The covenant.
He started to do what? A. lay bricks for a new addition to the temple. B. teach the teachers. C. sell stuff he had been making in the carpentry shop in his spare time.
And he was so good at it but yet had disappeared without permission, that his parents were. A. astonished. B. miffed. C. Both A and B.
They were probably also scared since if Jesus started to become a temple celebrity guess who might get curious? A. TMZ. B. VICE. C. Herod and that's my last offer.
How did the 12 year old Jesus who was the son of a tradesman and had spent his life in a one horse town, know all of the things that the professional scholars did? This is not a multiple choice question. The problem with Jesus is his claims are so humble in form, yet so outlandish in content, that He either is God, and everything he says is absolutely true, or, he's off the wall. So come, let us reason together.