Luke 2:49 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴⁹ ‘Why were you searching for me? ’ he asked them. ‘Didn’t you know that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house? ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁹ And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁹ And He said to them, How is it that you had to look for Me? Did you not see and know that it is necessary [as a duty] for Me to be in My Father's house and [occupied] about My Father's business?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁹ And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? knew ye not that I must be in my Father’s house?

Common English Bible

⁴⁹ Jesus replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁹ And he said to them: "How is it that you were seeking me? For did you not know that it is necessary for me to be in these things which are of my Father?"

Luke 2:49 Cross References

Malachi 3:1

‘See, I am going to send my messenger,  and he will clear the way before me.  Then the Lord you seek  will suddenly come to his temple,  the Messenger of the covenant you delight in #– #see, he is coming,’ says the Lord of Armies.

Matthew 21:12

Jesus went into the temple  , and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

Luke 2:48

When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him,  ‘Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.’

John 4:34

‘My food is to do the will of him   who sent me   and to finish his work,’   Jesus told them.

John 5:17

Jesus responded to them, ‘My Father   is still working, and I am working also.’

John 5:36

‘But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given me to accomplish.   These very works I am doing testify about me that the Father has sent   me.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven,   not to do my own will, but the will of him   who sent me.

John 8:29

The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone,   because I always do what pleases him.’

John 9:4

We   must do the works   of him who sent me   while it is day.   Night is coming when no one can work.