Luke 2:49

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘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? ’

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

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

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.

John 4:34

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

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 5:17

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

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.

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.

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.