Luke 2:42 Douay-Rheims

And when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast,

Epiphanius of Salamis

c. A.D. 310–403 Patristic

(cont. Hær. l. ii. hær. 31.) Let Ebion know that at twelve years old, not thirty, Christ is found the astonishment of all men, wonderful and mighty in the words of grace. We can not therefore say, that after that the Spirit came to Him in Baptism He was made the Christ, that is, anointed with divinity, but from His very childhood He acknowledged both the temple and His Father.

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A.D. 403 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:42-50

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