Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Luke 2
⁴⁷ And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.
⁴⁸ So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, "Son, why have You done this to us? Look, Your father and I have sought You anxiously."
⁴⁹ And He said to them, "Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?"
⁵⁰ But they did not understand the statement which He spoke to them.
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.
Luke 3
¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
² while Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
³ And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins,
⁴ as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ’Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight.
⁵ Every valley shall be filled And every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough ways smooth;