 teaching and things that are untrue unfounded that have been written about these years but nonetheless we suffice it to say this is what we know of what's happening in the life of Jesus from birth to 12 years old and then from 12 years old what's going to happen in these gap years until his public ministry I think it is summed up in verse 52 which highlights for us the model for this gospel hope that we're praying for in the lives of our kids and modeled in the person of Christ in his humanity and