Luke 2:49

New International Version

“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”

Cross References

Psalm 40:8

I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”

Malachi 3:1

“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 21:12

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.

Luke 2:48

When his parents saw him, they were astonished. 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,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

John 5:17

In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”

John 5:36

“I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

John 8:29

The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.”

John 9:4

As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.