Luke 2:46

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:12 : 12 So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.
  • Isa 49:1-2 : 1 Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind: 2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place;
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:
  • Luke 5:17 : 17 And it came about that on one of these days he was teaching; and some Pharisees and teachers of the law were seated there, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judaea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him, to make those who were ill free from their diseases.
  • Acts 5:34 : 34 But one of the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a man of learning in the law, of whom all the people had a high opinion, got up and made a suggestion for the men to be put outside for a little time.
  • Matt 12:40 : 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
  • Matt 16:21 : 21 From that time Jesus went on to make clear to his disciples how he would have to go up to Jerusalem, and undergo much at the hands of those in authority and the chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and the third day come again from the dead.
  • Matt 27:63-64 : 63 Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead. 64 Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.
  • Luke 2:44-45 : 44 And in the belief that he was with some of their number, they went a day's journey; and after looking for him among their relations and friends, 45 And seeing that he was not there, they went back to Jerusalem, to make search for him.
  • 1 Kgs 12:5 : 5 And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.

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    39 And when they had done all the things which were ordered by the law of the Lord, they went back to Galilee, to Nazareth, the town where they were living.

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    41 And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

    42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up, as their way was, to the feast;

    43 And when the days of the feast came to an end and they were going back, the boy Jesus was still in Jerusalem, but they had no knowledge of it:

    44 And in the belief that he was with some of their number, they went a day's journey; and after looking for him among their relations and friends,

    45 And seeing that he was not there, they went back to Jerusalem, to make search for him.

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    47 And all to whose ears it came were full of wonder at his knowledge and the answers which he gave.

    48 And when they saw him they were surprised, and his mother said to him, Son, why have you done this to us? see, your father and I have been looking for you with sorrow.

    49 And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? was it not clear to you that my right place was in my Father's house?

    50 And his words seemed strange to them.

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    27 And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,

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    14 Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.

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    33 And his father and mother were full of wonder at the things which were said about him.

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