Luke 2:49

Holman Christian Standard Bible

“Why were you searching for Me? ” He asked them. “Didn’t you know that I had to be in My Father’s house? ”

Cross References

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do Your will, my God; Your instruction lives within me.”

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 desire — see, He is coming,” says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 21:12

Jesus went into the temple complex and drove out all those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers’ tables and the chairs of those selling doves.

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 4:34

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

John 5:17

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

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.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My 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.”

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.