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With such thoughts in His mind, Jesus wanted

to be alone. So He did not stay with His

parents in the temple, and when they started

for home He was not with them.

In a room connected with the temple there

was a school taught by the rabbis, and to this

place after a while the child Jesus came. He

sat with the other youth at the feet of the

great teachers, and listened to their words.

The Jews had many wrong ideas about the

Messiah. Jesus knew this, but He did not

contradict the learned men. As one who

wished to be taught, He asked questions

about what the prophets had written.

The fifty-third chapter of Isaiah speaks of the

Saviour's death, and Jesus read this chapter,

and asked its meaning.

The rabbis could give no answer. They began

to question Jesus, and they were astonished

at His knowledge of the Scriptures.