Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
See on Luke 2:40.
stature--or better, perhaps, as in the Margin, "age," which implies the other. This is all the record we have of the next eighteen years of that wondrous life. What seasons of tranquil meditation over the lively oracles, and holy fellowship with His Father; what inlettings, on the one hand, of light, and love, and power from on high, and outgoings of filial supplication, freedom, love, and joy on the other, would these eighteen years contain! And would they not seem "but a few days" if they were so passed, however ardently He might long to be more directly "about His Father's business?"
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 7:15
Luke 2:40
Luke 2:42
Luke 2:46
Romans 14:18
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