First as a little baby; then, as a boy of twelve, we see Him journeying to Jerusalem to be present at the Passover Feast, and we are told that when He returned home to Nazareth He "was subject" to His mother and Joseph, and obedient to them in all things.
FOUND IN THE TEMPLE.
Here for eighteen quiet years Jesus lived learning the trade of a carpenter, and working with His own blessed hands, making the simple things that were used by the country people around Him—seats, and tables, ploughs, and yokes for oxen.
Is it not nice to think that Jesus knows all about making yokes!
Do you not remember afterwards, how He said, "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of ME . . . for My yoke is easy, and My burden is light"?
So children, Jesus knows exactly all about the weight of "the yoke" you may have to bear. Everybody has some trial or burden; but Jesus says, if you will come to Him, the yoke He has made for you will be light.
I like to think that when He made yokes for the oxen, He made them as comfortable and easy and light as they could possibly be made, so that no rough edge should gall the patient animal as he pulled the heavy plough!
When Jesus was thirty years old, all the wonderful things began which we read of in the Gospels.
His first public appearance was when He came to John the Baptist to be baptized by him in the river Jordan, which we shall read about on the next page.