Luke 2:49 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴⁹ Every valley shall be filled; and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight; and the rough ways plain;

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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?"

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

Psalm 40:8

5 Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me : 'T is well, 't is well.

Malachi 3:1

And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you.

Matthew 21:12

0 And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How is it presently withered away?

Luke 2:48

As it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the prophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

John 4:34

2 And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

John 5:17

5 Amen, amen I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.

John 5:36

4 How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek?

John 6:38

6 Not that any man hath seen the Father; but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.

John 8:29

7 I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

John 9:4

2 And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not.