Luke 2:49
And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? did you not know, that I must be about my father's business?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
50And they understood not the word that he spoke unto them.
Cross References
Malachi 3:1Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.
Luke 2:48And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
John 4:34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
John 6:38Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
John 9:4I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
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 →