Luke 2:51

We are going to be dealing mostly with the New Testament and I am doing that because that is where the spirit of God's law is mostly dealt with. I want to begin by giving a variety of examples where hupotasso appears. First, we are going to the book of Luke. This is an example taken from Jesus' early life. As a matter of fact, He was twelve years old. Luke, in writing this, makes a remark about Jesus' conduct in relation to His parents.

If you have a marginal reference it probably says "obedient." We also find that the word hupotasso is translated as "obedient" in the Revised Standard Version. Here in the New King James it is translated "subject," and in the Revised Standard it is translated "obedient." So we can get a shade of the way the translators decided to interpret the context in which this word appears and they put the alternate use in the margin, as well.

Luke 2:51-52

Then after the discussion with the doctors of the law in the Temple:

Just like you and me, He had to grow. God did not open up Jesus' head and pour in all this knowledge, wisdom, and power like a funnel. He had to go through all the exercise of discipline it takes to thoroughly understand something and accumulate knowledge; meditate on things and come to understand them.

Incidentally, I might add something here that all these things are given that we can understand that when Jesus finished His course, He was prepared to be our Mediator and High Priest. He saw life from the same perspective, from the same worldview as we do. He grew up in a middle class family, a family that did not have a lot of money, in a small town. He grew in wisdom. He accumulated knowledge and understanding just as we do.