Luke 2:51-52

⁵¹ Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but His mother kept all these things in her heart. ⁵² And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Commentary

Jesus then having astonished the teachers of the law in the Temple, with both His questions and answers, and having told His parents that He must be about doing His Father’s business, (Luke 2:47-50). Now returns with His parents to Nazareth, where the Scripture says that He was subject to them. And so even though He knew that He was the Son of God/Son of Man He did not reject or rebel against His parent’s authority (or any authority), but was subject to them, just as God His Father wanted Him to be. Now Mary the Scripture says, kept all these things in her heart (vs. 51). That is the things Jesus was both saying and doing, were revealing to her that this Child, which she was rearing for God, was no ordinary Child! Having then submitted Himself to his parents, just as God His Father wanted Him to do, Jesus then increased in both wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men (vs. 52). The connection then with growing in stature (i.e. having a good standing) in the eyes of God and men is always linked with our obeying God (Prov. 3:1-4, Rom. 14:16-18). Same with wisdom, for nobody grows in wisdom who lives or is living contrary to it (consider Prov. 8:12-36).

Scripture Quotations

New King James Version. (1982): Thomas Nelson