Luke 2:49

He answered, "Why is it that you have been looking for me, did you not realize that I had to be in my Father’s house?"

Montgomery New Testament

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

48When they saw him they were astonished, and his mother said to him "Child, why have you treated us so? Behold your father and I have been looking for you in anguish."

50But they did not understand the words that he spoke to them.

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Cross References

Luke 2:48When they saw him they were astonished, and his mother said to him "Child, why have you treated us so? Behold your father and I have been looking for you in anguish."

John 4:34Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

John 6:38"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

John 9:4"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can 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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