Luke 2:50

But they did not understand what he said to them.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

49He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?”

51Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient 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 what this meant. It was concealed from them, so that they could not grasp 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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