002:043 and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning,
the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his
mother didn't know it,
002:044 but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey,
and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
002:045 When they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem,
looking for him.
002:046 It happened after three days they found him in the temple,
sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them,
and asking them questions.
002:047 All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
002:048 When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother
said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way?
Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."
002:049 He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you
know that I must be in my Father's house?"
002:050 They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.
002:051 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth.
He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings
in her heart.
002:052 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor
with God and men.
003:001 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch
of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region
of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
003:002 in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God
came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
003:003 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the
baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
003:004 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready
the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.
003:005 Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill
will be brought low. The crooked will become straight,
and the rough ways smooth.
003:006 All flesh will see God's salvation.'"{Isaiah 40:3-5}
003:007 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized
by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee
from the wrath to come?
003:008 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't
begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;'
for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham
from these stones!
003:009 Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees.
Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit
is cut down, and thrown into the fire."
003:010 The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"
003:011 He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him
who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."
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