the temple and asking questions (v. 46).28 Not only his attentive questions but also his own insight, evident in his replies to the teachers, impresses (v. 47). All are amazed by the precocious youth; the promise of his future greatness begins to be realized. Jesus will be as advertised. This is true not just in general terms—the narrator is silent about the content of his exchanges with the teachers—but also in a quite specific and crucial sense: Jesus begins to emerge from obscurity as the Son