HAVE YOUR PARENTS EVER SAID ANYTHING

SIMILAR TO YOU? WHEN?

Son/daughter: why have you treated us like this? Don’t you know how worried we have been ?

JESUS LOST IN THE TEMPLE LUKE 2:39

To describe the story of Jesus lost in the Temple

To explain what this story tells us about Jesus

To evaluate who Jesus is from this story.

1. Summarise the story in your books in your own words, using the prompts. Give your story a subtitle.

2. What is surprising about Jesus’ reply “didn’t you know that I would be in my Father’s house?”

***What do you think Mary “pondered” about, after the incident? (last verse)

Answers: G, B, F, E, A, D, C

Jesus , Mary, Joseph / Jerusalem festival /

returning home/ realised lost / searching / 3 days /

temple / talking to/ worried / “why...?” / my father’s house / Mary

wondered

Apart from getting lost in the Temple, there is no more information about Jesus growing up.

What could his life have been like in the mean time ???

They lived in a small busy town so he might have…There was a lake nearby …so he might have…The family was quite poor…so he might have…Israel, his country, was being governed by the latin-speaking Romans, so he might have…Jesus had lots of cousins…so he might have…Jesus was Jewish, so he might have ….Joseph, Jesus’ adoptive father, was a carpenter…so he might have….

Growing Up

Do you think Jesus had a normal childhood ?

Was growing up for him like it is for you?

Jesus’ Childhood

Jesus , Mary, Joseph / Jerusalem festival / returning relatives / lost / searching / 3 days / temple / talking to/ worried / “why...?” / my father’s house / Mary wondered