In October of 1945, ten-year-old Elvis Presley sang “Old Shep” in a talent competition at the Mississippi-Alabama State Fair and Dairy Show in Tupelo and was elated to come in fifth. He recalled in later years that he “ran off” later in the day and “got a whipping from my mama. Blew my ego completely.”

On first reading that story, I immediately thought of an incident in the life of Jesus, recorded in the Gospel According to St. Luke, chapter two, verses 41-49:

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the........

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