[Iscool]

The interpretation you give is what a modern person would interpret using today’s language. Who told you that should be interpreted to mean that “Mary was trying to get her son to reveal who He was prematurely”?

See, that's your problem...I don't require a religion to tell me what basic English words in the bible mean...And since I can read and I have normal comprehension skills, it's not too difficult to read what the scriptures say, and more importantly, believe...BTW, God wrote the bible so that people in any and every age could 'get it'...

[narses]

Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

[Judith Anne]

I don't require a religion to tell me what basic English words in the bible mean...

Maybe not. It sure looks like you might require some serious help to discern that language and custom 2000 years ago and half-way around the world in a Jewish environment might be different than what your "basic English words in a protestant Bible mean."