2-720-260 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'They found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors', c1840. Biblical scene, from Luke 2: 46: 'And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.' Story also known as Christ among the Doctors: the precocious twelve-year-old Jesus was found in The Temple in discussion with the elders. When his parents admonished him for going missing, he said 'Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?'. Engraving after a work (of the late 17th-early 18th century?) by Houbraken.