My Sunday Scripture 2009.12.27
Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover.
When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual.
When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it.
They assumed he was somewhere in the party, and it was only after a day's journey that they went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances.
When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him everywhere.
It happened that, three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions;
and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies.
They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to him, 'My child, why have you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.'
He replied, 'Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?'
But they did not understand what he meant.
He went down with them then and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom, in stature, and in favour with God and with people.
Luke 2:41-52
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My Reading Notes:
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The question is: How important is a family? Is the family superior to everything?
or, something more important are superior?
It is obvoius that the love of God, and the love of all are more important. And this is the very basic difference between the Confucius thought and a Christian.
In Confucism, the value of a hierarchical system is most important. And that would lead to the suffocation of truth, because the criterion to truth had been put in the hands of the authority.
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