Luke 2:49 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

⁴⁹ He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must 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

Matthew 21:12

Then Jesus entered the courts of God's temple and drove out all who were selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

Luke 2:48

When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Child, why have yoʋ treated us like this? Behold, yoʋr father and I have been looking for yoʋ in great distress.”

John 4:34

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

John 5:17

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working even now, and I too am working.”

John 5:36

But I have testimony greater than John's. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, 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 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 what pleases 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.