Luke 2:49 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁹ And He replied to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I had to be in my Father’s house [i.e., the Temple, or, “about my Father’s affairs”]?”

More versions

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?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁹ And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? did you not know, that I must be about my father's business?

Luke 2:49 Cross References

Matthew 21:12

Then Jesus entered the Temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold things there. He upset the tables of the cashiers [i.e., those who exchanged foreign coins] and the benches of those who sold pigeons [for sacrifices].

Luke 2:48

When His parents [finally] saw Him, they were very surprised and His mother asked Him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Look, your [step-] father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”

John 4:34

Jesus answered them; “My food is doing what God, who sent me, wants me to, and accomplishing His work.

John 5:17

But Jesus said to them, “My Father is continuing to work and I am working.”

John 5:36

But my testimony is greater than John’s. For the deeds the Father has given me to complete, the very deeds I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven to do what God, who sent me, wants me to do, not what I want to do.

John 8:29

And God, who sent me, is with me; He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to Him.”

John 9:4

While it is still daytime we must perform the acts of God, who sent me. Nighttime is coming, when no one can act.