Luke 2:49

And He said to them, Why were you seeking after me? Did you not know that it behooved me to be in the affairs of my Father?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?

In Context

48And seeing Him they were astonished, and His mother said to Him; Child, why did you thus do unto us? Behold, thy father and I were seeking thee, sorrowful.

50And they did not understand the word which He spoke unto them.

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Cross References

Luke 2:48And seeing Him they were astonished, and His mother said to Him; Child, why did you thus do unto us? Behold, thy father and I were seeking thee, sorrowful.

John 4:34Jesus says to them, My food is that I may do the will of Him that sent me, and finish His work.

John 6:38Because I have come down from heaven, not that I may do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me.

John 9:4It behooveth us to work the works of Him that sent us, while it is day: the night comes, when no one is able to 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 →

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