Luke 2:49 - 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?"

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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?”

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?

English Standard Version 2016

⁴⁹ And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Luke 2:49 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Psalm 40:8

All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I send my angel, and he will prepare the way before my face. And presently the Sovereign, whom you seek, and the angel of testimony, whom you desire, will arrive at his temple. Behold, he approaches, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 21:12

And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and he cast out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of the vendors of doves.

Luke 2:48

And upon seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: "Son, why have you acted this way toward us? Behold, your father and I were seeking you in sorrow."

John 4:34

Jesus said to them: "My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, "Even now, my Father is working, and I am working."

John 5:36

But I hold a greater testimony than that of John. For the works which the Father has given to me, so that I may complete them, these works themselves that I do, offer testimony about me: that the Father has sent me.

John 6:38

For I descended from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

John 8:29

And he who sent me is with me, and he has not abandoned me alone. For I always do what is pleasing to him."

John 9:4

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no one is able to work.