better than he is. No, that will not do. The intention must decide.
If any one bakes bread on the Sabbath, I should say to him: 'Is it for
your own good or for gain?' In the first case you are acting rightly,
in the last you desecrate the Sabbath."

As they now did not know what to say, they decided that the youth was
too insignificant for them to dispute with.

Jesus, still excited, came down and joined the crowd, where his mother
was wringing her hands over the boldness with which her son had spoken
to the elders and the wise men. She stretched her arms towards him.
"Child! child! What are you doing here? Why treat us so? What we
have not suffered on your behalf! We have sought you for three whole
days in the greatest anxiety."

Then Jesus said: "Why did you seek me? He who has a task to do, cannot
always stay with his own people. I have been about my Heavenly
Father's business."

"Where were you all the time?"

He did not answer. Others might have told how he stood between the
pillars listening to the discussions of the Rabbis until he could keep
silence no longer.

Joseph said to him with some severity: "If you are learned enough to
interpret the Scriptures to those honourable men, you must know the
fifth commandment: 'Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may
be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.'"