Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Twelve years old (etwn dwdeka). Predicate genitive. Luke does not say that Jesus had not been to Jerusalem before, but at twelve a Jewish boy became a "son of the law" and began to observe the ordinances, putting on the phylacteries as a reminder.
They went up (anabainontwn autwn). Genitive absolute with present active participle, a loose construction here, for the incident narrated took place after they had gone up, not while they were gong up. "On their usual going up" (Plummer).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Mark 6:3
Luke 1:80
1 Timothy 5:9
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