Luke 2:50

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

49He said to them: Why did ye seek me? Do ye not know, that it behooveth me to be in my Father's house?

51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. And his mother laid up all these things in her heart.

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Cross References

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

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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