Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 2]
passive indicative of an old Greek word (\ekpl•ss•\), to strike
out, drive out by a blow. Joseph and Mary "were struck out" by
what they saw and heard. Even they had not fully realized the
power in this wonderful boy. Parents often fail to perceive the
wealth of nature in their children.
2:49 {Son} (\teknon\). Child, literally. It was natural for Mary
to be the first to speak. {Why} (\Ti\). The mother's reproach of
the boy is followed by a confession of negligence on her part and
of Joseph ({sorrowing}, \odun•menoi\). {Thy father} (\ho pater
sou\). No contradiction in this. Alford says: "Up to this time
Joseph had been so called by the holy child himself, but from
this time never." {Sought} (\ez•toumen\). Imperfect tense
describing the long drawn out search for three days. {How is it
that} (\Ti hoti\). The first words of Jesus preserved to us. This
crisp Greek idiom without copula expresses the boy's amazement
that his parents should not know that there was only one possible
place in Jerusalem for him. {I must be} (\dei einai me\).
Messianic consciousness of the necessity laid on him. Jesus often
uses \dei\ (must) about his work. Of all the golden dreams of any
boy of twelve here is the greatest. {In my Father's house} (\en
tois tou patros mou\). Not "about my Father's business," but "in
my Father's house" (cf. Ge 41:51). Common Greek idiom. And note
"my," not "our." When the boy first became conscious of his
peculiar relation to the Father in heaven we do not know. But he
has it now at twelve and it will grow within him through the
years ahead in Nazareth.
2:50 {They understood not} (\ou sun•kan\). First aorist active
indicative (one of the k aorists). Even Mary with all her
previous preparation and brooding was not equal to the dawning of
the Messianic consciousness in her boy. "My Father is God," Jesus
had virtually said, "and I must be in His house." Bruce observes
that a new era has come when Jesus calls God "Father," not
\Despotes\. "Even we do not yet fully understand" (Bruce) what
Jesus the boy here said.
2:51 {He was subject unto them} (\•n hupotassomenos autois\).
Periphrastic imperfect passive. He continued subject unto them,
this wondrous boy who really knew more than parents and rabbis,
this gentle, obedient, affectionate boy. The next eighteen years
at Nazareth (Lu 3:23) he remained growing into manhood and
becoming the carpenter of Nazareth (Mr 6:3) in succession to
Joseph (Mt 13:55) who is mentioned here for the last time. Who
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