Luke 2:49

God's Word

Jesus said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you realize that I had to be in my Father’s house?”

Cross References

Psalm 40:8

I am happy to do your will, O my God.” Your teachings are deep within me.

Malachi 3:1

“I’m going to send my messenger, and he will clear the way ahead of me. Then the Lord you are looking for will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the promise  will come. He is the one you want,” says the Lord of Armies.

Matthew 21:12

Jesus went into the temple courtyard and threw out everyone who was buying and selling there. He overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold pigeons.

Luke 2:48

When his parents saw him, they were shocked. His mother asked him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been worried sick looking for you!”

John 4:34

Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.

John 5:17

Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working right now, and so am I.”

John 5:36

But I have something that testifies more favorably on my behalf than John’s testimony. The tasks that the Father gave me to carry out, these tasks which I perform, testify on my behalf. They prove that the Father has sent me.

John 6:38

I haven’t come from heaven to do what I want to do. I’ve come to do what the one who sent me wants me to do.

John 8:29

Besides, the one who sent me is with me. He hasn’t left me by myself. I always do what pleases him.”

John 9:4

We must do what the one who sent me wants us to do while it is day. The night when no one can do anything is coming.