Luke 2:50

But they did not comprehend the word that he spake to them.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

49He saith to them, Why have you sought me (elsewhere)? Knew you not that (in) the house of my Father it behoveth me to be?

51And he went down with them, and came to Natsrath, and was subject to them. But his mother kept all these words in her heart.

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Cross References

Luke 9:45But they understood not that saying, because it was hidden from them that they should not know it: and they feared to ask of him concerning that 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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