Jesus Grows from Infancy to Manhood

Luke 2:51; Luke 2:52; Luke 2:40; In our present state of spiritual understanding, it apparently is not intended that we have any appreciable knowledge of the life of Jesus prior to the commencement of his ministry. No doubt complete and full accounts will be available during the millennium, for in that day the Lord has promised to "reveal all things." (D&C 101:32.) Such knowledge as is now available, however, leads us to believe that the Son of Mary (1) participated in the normal activities and experiences of the time, and (2) was endowed with talents and spiritual capacities exceeding those of any other person who ever lived. That he was obedient and sinless is evident; yet, with it all, he was subject to the restrictions and testings of mortality, was in all points tempted as other men are (Hebrews 2:10-18; Hebrews 5:8-9), and having "continued from grace to grace," he finally (after the resurrection) "received a fulness of the glory of the Father," and perfected his own salvation. (D&C 93:6-16.)

Luke 2:40. A summary of his life from the age of forty days to that of twelve years. 51-52. Covers the period from twelve to thirty years of age. I. V. Matthew 3:24-26. From the return out of Egypt to the beginning of his ministry, a period of perhaps twenty-seven or twenty-eight years.