And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
"Virtually the totality of the material about Jesus in Luke 1:5 to Luke 4:15 would have been regarded as an anticipation of his later public greatness. . . . [This material] would combine to foretell/foreshadow the type of person Jesus would be in his public ministry which began at Luke 4:16-30." [Note: Charles H. Talbert, "Prophecies of Future Greatness: The Contribution of Greco-Roman Biographies to an Understanding of Luke 1:5-4:15," in The Divine Helmsman: Studies on God’s Control of Human Events, Presented to Lou H. Silberman, p. 137.] 