Luke 2:50

They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them.

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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? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

51And he went down with them and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

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Cross References

Luke 9:45But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

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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