Luke 2:49

He said to them: Why did ye seek me? Do ye not know, that it behooveth me to be in my Father's house?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 when they saw him they were amazed. And his mother said to him: My son, why hast thou done so to us? For lo, I and thy father have been seeking for thee with great anxiety.

50But they did not comprehend the word that he spoke to them.

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Cross References

Luke 2:48And when they saw him they were amazed. And his mother said to him: My son, why hast thou done so to us? For lo, I and thy father have been seeking for thee with great anxiety.

John 4:34Jesus said to them: My food is to do the pleasure of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

John 6:38For I came down from heaven, not to do my own pleasure, but the pleasure of him that sent me.

John 9:4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, in which no one 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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