Luke 2:50

And they understood not the thing that he said to them.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

In Context

49And he said to them, Why [is it] that ye have sought me? did ye not know that I ought to be [occupied] in my Father's business?

51And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and he was in subjection to them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart.

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Cross References

Luke 9:45But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them that they should not perceive it. And they feared to ask him concerning this saying.

Matthew Henry on Luke 2:42-52

Christ Sitting with the Doctors. 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. 44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. 45 And when they found him not,… Read the whole commentary →

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