When the King came; stories from the four Gospels (1904) (14761011104)

Identifier: whenkingcamestor00hodg (find matches)
Title: When the King came; stories from the four Gospels
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hodges, George, 1856-1919
Subjects: Jesus Christ Bible
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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andlistening while wise men taught. The teacherswere called doctors; not doctors of medicine,but doctors of divinity, teachers of religion.And in the midst of the gray-bearded doctors,not only hearing them but asking them ques-tions, was the child Jesus, while all who heardhim were astonished at his understanding andanswers. And when his parents saw him theywere both glad and amazed ; glad to find himafter their long search, but amazed that theirson, this little lad of Nazareth, should be sit-ting so serenely in the midst of those learnedpeople, understanding what they said. But the boy had done wrong, so theythought. He had caused them great distress.And his mother said, Son, why hast thouthus dealt with us ? Behold, thy father and Ihave sought thee sorrowing. She reproachedhim, with tears in her eyes, as mothers must.But he answered, How is it that you soughtme ? Did you not know that I would be foundin my heavenly Fathers house? He meantthat they should have known him better than,
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wJ OH s H Ku AT THE AGE OF TWELVE 57 to search for him from street to street. Theyshould have looked first in the temple. It shows what he had been doing all thatweek, while other boys were gazing at the shopwindows, or admiring the bright uniforms andshining lances of the castle guard. He hadspent his time in the holy house, attending tothe words of the wise ; like the child who lovesto get away by himself with a book. It shows, too, that already he had that habitof attention which is a part of greatness.When he was interested, he thought of no-thing else. By and by, we shall see him think-ing so deeply that for a long while, even fordays, he forgets to eat. Now he forgets whattime it is, and how his father and motherare starting off for home. All his mind is onthe words of the wise men. That was differ-ent from the ways of James and Joses andthe others. His father and mother could notunderstand it. But he turned about and took their handsand went away between them, and so cameto Naz