Luke 2:50

But they did not understand the statement which He spoke to them.

English Majority Text (NT)

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 you were seeking Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?”

51Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And His mother kept all these things in her heart.

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Cross References

Luke 9:45But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them so that they did not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this saying. 1 Who is the Greatest?

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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