Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 2:51

51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them, But his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

We left him at Nazareth, after Maries Purification, v. 39. we find him at Nazareth now at twelve years old. We shall now read no more of him till Ch. 3.23. when he came to be about thirty years of Age. What he did in the mean time, is a business of too much Curiosity for us to inquire, and of very little Significancy to us if we knew. Some think he wrought with his Father upon his Trade; as I cannot tell how to prove it, so I know nothing against it. It is not like he was sent to any of the Schools of their Prophets, as he who could Argue with the Doctors pertinently at twelve years of Age, and to whom the Spirit was given not by measure, had no need of their instructions: So their Academies were not such as we can reasonably think, that Ioseph and Mary should seek any Education for him in them, and I know no reason why we should think, that he who abhorred not the Womb of the Virgin, nor a Stable, nor a Manger should abhor the Works of an honest Vocation, and not much more abhor an idle Life. But we dispute about these things in vain, being such as to which we can never be satisfied (God having hidden them from our knowledge) what is for our Instruction is told us, He was Subject unto his Parents. This teacheth the greatest and highest Mortals, to honour their Fathers and Mothers. Which (saith the Apostle) is the first Commandement with promise. Solomon honour'd his Mother, and behold a greater then Solomon is here, paying his Homage also both to the Womb that bare him, and to his (supposed) Father that provided for him, and protected him. But his Mother kept all these sayings in her Heart. Mary was no forgetful hearer, some things she did not yet clearly understand, but she kept them in her Heart, and those who do so as to Gods Word, shall in time understand them.