"Solitary floweret," says Stier, referring to this incident, "gathered from the wonderful enclosed garden of the thirty years and plucked precisely when the swollen bud, at the age of twelve years, was about to burst into flower."
The incident is specially valuable as indicating so perfect an understanding between our Lord and His mother. He wondered that, knowing Him as she did, she could have lost Him, or should have failed to seek Him in His Father's house. The stress is on Wist ye not? Here, however, He seemed to pass into a new attitude toward His life-work. May we not say that He caught sight of its absorbing character, to which all else must be subordinated?
Let us never suppose that we are in the company of Jesus, when, in fact, we may have lost Him. Never rest till you and He have found each other! [source]
Chapter Summary: Luke 2
1Augustus taxes all the Roman empire 6The nativity of Jesus 8An angel relates it to the shepherds, and many sing praises to God for it 15The shepherds glorify God 21Jesus is circumcised 22Mary purified 25Simeon and Anna prophesy of Jesus, 39who increases in wisdom, 41questions in the temple with the teachers, 51and is obedient to his parents
Greek Commentary for Luke 2:50
They understood not [ου συνηκαν] 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 Δεσποτες Despotes “Even we do not yet fully understand” (Bruce) what Jesus the boy here said. [source]
Greek Commentary for Luke 2:50
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 Δεσποτες Despotes “Even we do not yet fully understand” (Bruce) what Jesus the boy here said. [source]
See on Luke 1:37. [source]