Luke 2:50

But they did not understand the statement He was making to them.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

49“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”

51Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

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Cross References

Luke 9:45But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

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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