Luke 2:49 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁴⁹ ‘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

⁴⁹ 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

⁴⁹ 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)

⁴⁹ 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

⁴⁹ 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

⁴⁹ 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

⁴⁹ 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.