Luke 2:40 Commentary - Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
§ 14. JESUS GOES TO THE PASSOVER AT TWELVE YEARS OF AGE, Luk 2:40-52 .
To the question, What sort of a boy was Jesus? this brief passage forms the whole scripture answer. We learn from it that he had a true human soul as well as body. He was a genuine natural child, infant, and boy. When as an infant the shepherds paid to him their homage, and the Magi presented their gifts, he was, perhaps, unconscious of the nature of the transactions. When, at the age of some two and a half years, his parents brought him from their flight into Egypt to the hills of Nazareth, his body grew: and amid the bold scenes of hill and dale, with the blue Mediterranean in the distance, his mind received its expansion. As the synagogue and the lessons at home unfolded the truths of the Old Testament to his view, telling of the Messiah to come, it is wonderful to think what might have been the first presentiments to his mind that he was himself that Messiah. Perhaps this passage tells us of the first distinct consciousness that God was his Father in the highest sense.
Consult other comments:
Luke 2:40 - The Greek Testament
Luke 2:40 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Luke 2:40 - Calvin's Complete Commentary
Luke 2:40 - The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Luke 2:40 - Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Luke 2:40 - Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Luke 2:40 - Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Luke 2:40 - Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)
Luke 2:40 - Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Luke 2:40 - Everett's Study Notes on the Holy Scriptures
Luke 2:40 - The Expositor’s Greek Testament by Robertson
Luke 2:40 - F.B. Meyer's Through the Bible Commentary
Luke 2:40 - Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
Luke 2:40 - McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries (New Testament)
Luke 2:40 - Geneva Bible Notes
Luke 2:40 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Luke 2:40 - Gnomon of the New Testament
Luke 2:40 - The Great Texts of the Bible
Luke 2:40 - Henry Alford's Greek Testament
Luke 2:40 - Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Luke 2:40 - Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Luke 2:40 - Neighbour's Wells of Living Water
Luke 2:40 - Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer's New Testament Commentary
Luke 2:40 - Peake's Commentary on the Bible
Luke 2:40 - Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Luke 2:40 - English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Luke 2:40 - The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Luke 2:40 - Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament
Luke 2:40 - A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Luke 2:40 - John Trapp's Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Luke 2:40 - The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Luke 2:40 - Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament
Luke 2:40 - Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel D. Whedon (1808-1885) was a prominent university professor, theologian, and author. He served as Professor of Ancient Languages at Wesleyan University in Connecticut; as Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Michigan; and as editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review from 1856 to1884. He authored numerous books including Commentary on the New Testament (New York: Carlton & Porter, 1860); Commentary on the Old Testament (New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1873); What is Arminianism? (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1879); and Essays, Reviews, and Discourses (New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1887).