Lucas 2:44

44 porque creyeron que estaba entre los otros viajeros; pero cuando se hizo de noche y no aparecía, comenzaron a buscarlo entre sus parientes y amigos.

Lucas 2:44 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 2:44

But they supposing him to have been in the company
That travelled together into the same parts, having been, as they, at Jerusalem to keep the feast:

went a day's journey;
either before they missed him; or if they missed him sooner, yet they went on inquiring for him in the company, until they were come a day's journey before they thought, or, at least, determined on going back to Jerusalem. The bounds of a day's journey from Jerusalem are said to be ^F23 Elath on the south, and Akrabba on the north; elsewhere ^F24 it is, Elathon the north, and Akrabbaon the south, Lud, or Lydda, on the west, and Jordan on the east; wherefore, as Galilee lay north of Jerusalem, the bound of this day's journey must be, according to the Misna, Akrabba, and, according to the Talmud, Elath. Nazareth was three days journey from Jerusalem ^F25: according to the Jewish writers ^F26, a day's journey was ten "parsas", or large miles, Which were forty lesser miles; and which, they say, is a middling man's walk, on a middling day, as in the months of Tisri, or Nisan, when days and nights were alike: and it was in the latter of those months, on the twenty second day of it, that Joseph and Mary set out on their journey; see ( Exodus 12:18 ) but it cannot be thought that women and children should be able to travel so many miles a day, and therefore this day's journey, very likely, was shorter:

and they sought him among their kinsfolks and acquaintance;
when they came to the end of their day's journey, where they took up their lodging for that night: and as the company was large, they doubtless lay at different houses; wherefore they inquired in every house, where their relations and acquaintance lay, after their child Jesus, where they might most reasonably expect he would be: and so, in a spiritual sense, when souls have lost sight of Christ, of whom should they inquire concerning him? and where should they expect to hear of him, but among their spiritual kindred and friends, and who also are related to Christ? see ( Song of Solomon 5:9 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Misn. Maaser Sheni, c. 3. sect. 2.
F24 T. Bab. Betza, fol. 5. 1.
F25 David de Pomis Lex. Heb. p. 141.
F26 T. Hieros. Beracot, fol. 2. 3. T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 93. 2. & 94. & Tosaphta in ib. fol. 11. 2. Seder Tephillot, fol. 144. 1. Ed. Basil.

Lucas 2:44 In-Context

42 Cuando Jesús tenía doce años, asistieron al festival como siempre.

43 Una vez terminada la celebración, emprendieron el regreso a Nazaret, pero Jesús se quedó en Jerusalén. Al principio, sus padres no se dieron cuenta,

44 porque creyeron que estaba entre los otros viajeros; pero cuando se hizo de noche y no aparecía, comenzaron a buscarlo entre sus parientes y amigos.

45 Como no pudieron encontrarlo, regresaron a Jerusalén para buscarlo allí.

46 Tres días después, por fin lo encontraron en el templo, sentado entre los maestros religiosos, escuchándolos y haciéndoles preguntas.