Luke 2:49

So He said to them: “Why were you seeking me? Didn't you know that I must be about my Father's concerns?”

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?

In Context

48So upon seeing Him they were amazed, and His mother said to Him: “Son, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in distress.”

50But they did not understand the statement that He made to them.

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Cross References

Luke 2:48So upon seeing Him they were amazed, and His mother said to Him: “Son, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in distress.”

John 4:34Jesus says to them: “ My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to complete His work.

John 6:38because it is not to do my own will that I have come down out of Heaven, but the will of the One who sent me.

John 9:4I must accomplish the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one 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 →

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