Christ's Life of Submission
Dean Goulburn. Luke 2:50-51 And they understood not the saying which he spoke to them.… Though the words, "He was subject unto them," apply especially to the period of our Lord's youth, they would be a perfectly true motto for His course in after-years. His whole life was one of subjection and submission. He submitted Himself, and He taught submission, to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake. He submitted to receive John's baptism though He had no need of it. He submitted to pay the tax for the support of the Temple, though, as the only-begotten Son of the Father, whose house the Temple was, He was rightfully exempt from the tax. He bade the Jews submit themselves to the Romans who had conquered them, and render unto Caesar the dues which were Caesar's. He bade His disciples observe and do all that the Scribes and Pharisees enjoined, because they sat in Moses' chair, and held a position of authority. And, finally, He became obedient unto the sentence of death, drinking with the utmost meekness, even to the dregs, the cup of suffering which the Father had given Him. (Dean Goulburn.) Parallel Verses KJV: And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. WEB: They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.