Joseph comforted her, though he was himself in sad need of consolation.
"Poor mother," he said, drawing her head down on his breast, "let us go and place our trouble before the Lord." And when they had gone up into the Temple, there, among the scholars and the men learned in the law they found Jesus.

The youth sat among the grey-bearded rabbis, and carried on a lively conversation with them, so that his cheeks glowed and his eyes shone.

Judgment had to be pronounced on a serious case of transgression of the law.

A man in Jerusalem had baked bread on the Sabbath, because his neighbour had been unable to lend him the oven the day before.

The Pharisees met together, and eagerly brought forward a crowd of statutes regarding the culpability of the transgressor.