Obedience to Parents
Luke 2:50-51
And they understood not the saying which he spoke to them.…


The Rev. Herbert Palmer, master of Queen's College, Cambridge, who died in 1647, was remarkable for his dutiful affection to his parents, not only when he was a child, but during his whole life. He was peculiarly attentive to his pious, aged mother; promoting, to the utmost of his power, both her temporal and spiritual comfort, even to the day of her death, which happened not long before his own. He used frequently to enforce this duty in his ministry, observing the emphasis which God puts upon it through the whole of the Scriptures. He used to say that he had noticed the effects of disobedience to parents, so that he scarcely ever knew undutiful children escape some visible judgment of God in the present life; he also thought that the mischiefs which occur in society frequently take their rise in the contempt of parental authority.



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.




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