Considerations As Jesus grew from a baby to a young boy, He came to understand and believe that He was God’s Son, the Messiah. I can imagine that His father and mother begin to teach Him about His birth and all that surrounded that heavenly event as soon as Jesus was old enough to comprehend it all. And being faithful Jews, Joseph and Mary taught the scriptures at an early age to their first-born child, Jesus. As our Lord studied God’s Word, written on the sacred scrolls, there must have come a terrible, terrible moment when Jesus read, and understood for the first ...