Luke 2:49 - New International Version (Anglicised)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And He said to them, How is it that you had to look for Me? Did you not see and know that it is necessary [as a duty] for Me to be in My Father's house and [occupied] about My Father's business?

American Standard Version (1901)

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? knew ye not that I must be in my Father’s house?

Common English Bible

Jesus replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he said to them: "How is it that you were seeking me? For did you not know that it is necessary for me to be in these things which are of my Father?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? did you not know, that I must be about my father's business?

Luke 2:49 Tagairtí Cros

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 defence 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.