“And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?”
Why were you searching for me? he asked. Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house? — the response is simultaneously gentle and theologically definitive. Why were you searching for me — the implied answer is that they should have known where to look. Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house: the first recorded words of Jesus in Luke, and they establish the controlling relationship of his life. The had to (dei, divine necessity) appears here for the first time — the same necessity that will govern the passion predictions. My Father's house is the temple, but the Father is not Joseph.
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