This Sunday’s Gospel reading gives us the only account of Jesus’ childhood from the Canonical Gospels. Jesus travels to Jerusalem with the extended family to celebrate Passover. Perhaps this was a trip made every year, or perhaps it was a special pilgrimage, it has been suggested it was for Jesus’ Bar-Mitzvah. Jesus gets left behind and his parents’ frantic search leads them to the Temple, where they find him sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.