Luke 2:49
He saith to them, Why have you sought me (elsewhere)? Knew you not that (in) the house of my Father it behoveth me to be?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
50But they did not comprehend the word that he spake to them.
Cross References
Luke 2:48And when they saw him, they wondered; and his mother said to him, My son, why hast thou done with us thus? for, behold, I and thy father with great anxiety have sought thee.
John 4:34Jeshu saith to them, My meat is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
John 6:38I descended from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of Him who sent me.
John 9:4Me it behoveth to do the works of Him who sent me, while it is to-day: the night cometh when man cannot 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 →