Luke 2:49

New English Translation

But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Cross References

Psalm 40:8

I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”

Malachi 3:1

“I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Matthew 21:12

Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

Luke 2:48

When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him, “Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.”

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

John 5:17

So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

John 5:36

“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete – the deeds I am now 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

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

John 9:4

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.