“But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.”
Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends — the one day of travel before the search communicates the reasonable assumption: in a group of Galilean pilgrims traveling home, a twelve-year-old boy was presumed to be somewhere in the caravan. The relatives and friends search establishes that the family network is the first place to look before the return to Jerusalem.
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