There are few things in all this world more important than the religious training of children. We are given some insight as to the importance of that in the life and the ministry of our Lord. In the New Testament we are given great detail concerning the birth of Jesus. Then, for the remainder of his life until he enters his public ministry as a full-grown man, there is almost nothing said about those years, except that which is given to us in Luke.
Chapter 2 in the gospel of Luke is worth our careful investigation, as it tells us that Jesus reaches the age of 12 and goes to the Temple in Jerusalem where he listens to and responds to the religious leaders of Israel. In that chapter we find those first recorded words that Jesus spoke: “Don’t you know,” he said to...