Luke 2:49 - Tree of Life Version

⁴⁹ He said to them, “Why were you searching for Me? Didn’t you know that I must be about the things of My Father?”

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

Psalm 40:8

Then I said: “Here I am, I have come— in the scroll of a book it is written about me.

Malachi 3:1

“Behold, I am sending My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. Suddenly He will come to His Temple —the Lord whom you seek— and the Messenger of the covenant —the One whom you desire— behold, He is coming,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Matthew 21:12

Then Yeshua entered the Temple and drove out all those selling and buying in the Temple. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those selling doves.

Luke 2:48

When His parents saw Yeshua, they were overwhelmed. And His mother said to Him, “Child, why did you do this to us? Look! Your father and I were searching for You frantically!”

John 4:34

Yeshua tells them, “My food is to do the will of the One who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

John 5:17

But Yeshua said to them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”

John 5:36

“But the testimony I have is greater than that from John. The works the Father has given Me to finish—the 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 the One 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 is pleasing to Him.”

John 9:4

We must do the work of the One who sent Me, so long as it is day! Night is coming when no one can work.