Luke 2:50

But they vnderstoode not the word that he spake to them.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

49Then said he vnto them, Howe is it that ye sought me? knewe ye not that I must goe about my Fathers busines?

51Then hee went downe with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subiect to them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

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Cross References

Luke 9:45But they vnderstood not that word: for it was hid from them, so that they could not perceiue it: and they feared to aske him of that worde.

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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