Did young Jesus have many friends growing up? There is a clue: when his parents started making their way back from Jerusalem, it says that they "didn't miss him at first, because they assumed he was with friends among the other travelers." This unique 12-year-old boy seemed to mingle just as easily with his age group, as well as the elderly religious teachers at the temple.
Another clue, at the end of the same chapter: "He was loved by God and by all who knew him." So it seems quite reasonable that teenage Jesus had many friends and was quite popular among them.
Not sure what was cool and fashionable among the teens in those days, but if transported to today's era, I wonder if young Jesus would have had his own Facebook page. I think yes, and we would have probably been a bit surprised by what He would have had on it and the friends he chose to invite and accept!
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This post has had me wandering down lots of creative corridors. Imagine if Captain Cook / Isaac Newton / Leonardo di Vinci had had a facebook page or a blog, what they would have rambled about. There has to be a book in there somewhere. Wishing you and Anna a great 2009.
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