He Said the Temple was His Father's House. He Is the Son Of God.
When Jesus was found teaching at the temple when he was 12 years old.
Jesus was not lost. When his parents were finished with their dealings in the city, they left with a large entourage, and assumed that Jesus was somewhere in the group. Jesus made His way to the Temple to teach what He knew. It was several days later that Mary and Joseph found Him at the temple expounding scriptures and teaching the elders. Jesus knew He was about His fathers' business. Not Joseph, but the business of God, His father.
Mary and Joseph found Jesus sitting in the temple when he was twelve years old. both hearing the doctors and asking them questions. (John 2.45,46). This must have been about the year 12.
Joseph and Mary brought Jesus to the temple as an infant "after the custom of the law" (to dedicate Him to the Lord), and Jesus was found in the temple "sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions" when He was twelve years old, when the family had gone to Jerusalem for the Passover. Both of these instances are recorded in Luke chapter 2.
Reading from NIV (new international version) - he said "why were you searching for me? Didnt you know I had to be in my father's house?"
No Jesus was not gambling at the Temple at age 12. Luke 2: 41-50 tells us that every year Joseph and Mary and Jesus would travel to Jerusalem for the Passover. When Jesus was there at age 12, His parents missed Him in their company on the way home to Nazareth. Returning to Jerusalem they found Jesus in the Temple, listening to and asking questions of the teachers there. Jesus even at age 12 would not gamble and there was no gambling in the temple.
Herod's Temple.
He was 12 years old when He was lost in Jerusalem. He was found in the temple after 3 days by Mary and Joseph his parents.
In a temple.
It was in the garden.Or the temple.
Because it was the last place they thought he would be found there, as a boy asking questions among learned people was a surprise.
In a temple.