...answered, " Wist ye not that I must be about My Father's business 1" And after this we are informed that He increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. Now, was not this act of our Lord of staying in the temple as much a preparatory act of worship...

...reign, computing from his victory over Anthony and Cleopatra. (| The wor.ls in the text are, " Jesus increased in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and man," Luke ii. 52. But if it be asked how he, who was the Eternal Wisdom of the Father, coukl be improved...

...to appearance, was forgotten. The child of adversity grew up, in silence, like a tender plant. And he increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God, and, for a while, with men. And, next, as the man of sorrows, he went forth upon his painful ministry. And,...

...conceived" and " born" of the Virgin, was " about thirty years of age" when baptized of John in Jordan, " increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." We are expressly told that " God sent forth his Son, made of a woman," which Bishop Pearson and...

...of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord. Luke ii. 52. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. John i. 32. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove,...

...could have greeted them with so natural a welcome as the grave and generous Boy, who, summer by summer, increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. As May fades into June, and again June and July into August, there is a certain reversal of the process...

...no other end. With regard to his early life, of which Eilen expresses a wish to know more, we read that he " increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." FRANCES. One would suppose that his relations and friends would have loved and honoured him in...

...Nazareth ; and was subject unto them. But his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. §• 2 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor...

...one greater than he, whose shoe latchets he was not worthy to loose.— In the mean while the other " increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." The Nazarite was baptizing in a certain river—he came to the Nazarite to be baptized; at his...

...one greater than he, whose shoe latchets he was not worthy to loos^.,-^ In the mean while the other " increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." The Nazarite was baptizing in a certain river — he came to ; the Nazarite to be baptized ;...