Luke 2:49

Modern English Version

He said to them, “How is it that you searched for Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”

Cross References

Psalm 40:8

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

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. He is coming, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 21:12

Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who sold and bought in the temple and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves.

Luke 2:48

When they saw Him, they were amazed. And His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You treated us this way? Behold, Your father and I have anxiously searched for You.”

John 4:34

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

John 5:17

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

John 5:36

“I have greater testimony than that of John. The works which the Father has given Me to finish, the very works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.

John 6:38

For I came down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

John 8:29

He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”

John 9:4

I must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.