Main Takeaways

• Epiphany is usually a season of impressive miracles, but this text reveals Jesus’ glory in quiet submission to authority.
• Jesus’ statement, "I must be about my Father’s business," anticipates His future suffering and death.
• Jesus fulfills the Law actively, sanctifying the Sabbath and the Fourth Commandment where we have failed.
• Christian vocation involves honoring the office of authority, regardless of the person holding it, in submission to God's will (Rom 13:1).
• Jesus offers His lived history of obedience in exchange for our history of sin.

Scripture Index

• Luke 2:41–52: The account of the boy Jesus in the temple and His return to Nazareth.
• Luke 9:22: The first prediction of the Passion, linking the divine necessity ("must") to the cross.
• Exodus 12: The context of the Passover feast and the sacrificial lamb.
• Romans 13:1: The apostolic instruction that all authority is instituted by God.

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