Luke 2:46

2:46 After143 three days144 they found him in the temple courts,145 sitting among the teachers,146 listening to them and asking them questions.

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143	tn Grk “And it happened that after.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
144	sn Three days means there was one day out, another day back, and a third day of looking in Jerusalem.
145	tn Grk “the temple.”
146	tn This is the only place in Luke’s Gospel where the term διδάσκαλος (didaskalos, “teacher”) is applied to Jews.