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SearchMission Awareness and Withdrawal from Education
On the first day of the week, March 20, A.D. 7, Jesus graduated from the course of training in the local school connected with the Nazareth synagogue. This was a great day in the life of any ambitious Jewish family, the day when the first-born son was pronounced a ―son of the commandment‖ and the ransomed first-born of the Lord God of Israel, a "child of the Most High‖" and servant of the Lord of all the earth.
The elders, notwithstanding all their trouble with Jesus‘ nonconformist tendencies, were very proud of the lad and had already begun laying plans which would enable him to go to Jerusalem to continue his education in the renowned Hebrew academies. As Jesus heard these plans discussed from time to time, he became increasingly sure that he would never go to Jerusalem to study with the rabbis.