Luke 1:80
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80 The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the desert until the day of his manifestation to Israel.(A)
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Luke 2:40
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40 The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him.(A)
The Boy Jesus in the Temple.[a]
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- 2:41–52 This story’s concern with an incident from Jesus’ youth is unique in the canonical gospel tradition. It presents Jesus in the role of the faithful Jewish boy, raised in the traditions of Israel, and fulfilling all that the law requires. With this episode, the infancy narrative ends just as it began, in the setting of the Jerusalem temple.
1 Samuel 2:26
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26 Meanwhile, young Samuel was growing in stature and in worth in the estimation of the Lord and the people.(A)
The Fate of Eli’s House.[a]
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- 2:27–36 These verses describe the punishment of Eli from a point of view contemporary with the reform of Josiah (2 Kgs 23:9; cf. v. 36); they hint at the events recorded in 1 Sm 22:18–23 and 1 Kgs 2:27. The older story of this divine warning occurs in 1 Sm 3:11–14. A man of God: often an anonymous figure whose speech foreshadows events in the near future. Cf. 1 Sm 9:6; 1 Kgs 13:1; 2 Kgs 23:16–17.
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