But you come with your laws against a poor man who was obliged to prepare his food on the Sabbath, and you imagine yourselves better than he is.

No, that will not do.

The intention must decide.
If any one bakes bread on the Sabbath, I should say to him: 'Is it for your own good or for gain ?' In the first case you are acting rightly, in the last you desecrate the Sabbath." As they now did not know what to say, they decided that the youth was too insignificant for them to dispute with.
Jesus, still excited, came down and joined the crowd, where his mother was wringing her hands over the boldness with which her son had spoken to the elders and the wise men.

She stretched her arms towards him.
"Child! child! What are you doing here?
Why treat us so?
What we have not suffered on your behalf! We have sought you for three whole days in the greatest anxiety." Then Jesus said: "Why did you seek me?
He who has a task to do, cannot always stay with his own people.

I have been about my Heavenly Father's business." "Where were you all the time ?" He did not answer.