Luke 2:49 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁹ He said to them, “Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must 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

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

And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.”

Malachi 3:1

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Luke 2:48

When his parents saw him they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Child, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously looking for you.”

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”

Matthew 21:12

Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

John 9:4

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

John 5:36

But I have a testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.