Luke 2:49
But he replied,“Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
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- Mal 3:1 : 1 “I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
- John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
- John 5:17 : 17 So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”
- John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
- John 8:29 : 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”
- Ps 40:8 : 8 I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”
- John 9:4 : 4 We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.
- Matt 21:12 : 12 Cleansing the Temple Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.
- Luke 2:48 : 48 When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him,“Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.”
- John 2:16-17 : 16 To those who sold the doves he said,“Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written,“Zeal for your house will devour me.”
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- Luke 2:39-4810 verses86%
39So when Joseph and Mary had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
40And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.
41Jesus in the Temple Now Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem every year for the Feast of the Passover.
42When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.
43But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,
44but(because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
45When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
46After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
47And all who heard Jesus were astonished at his understanding and his answers.
48When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him,“Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.”
- Luke 2:50-512 verses80%
50Yet his parents did not understand the remark he made to them.
51Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.
- John 8:19-202 verses75%
19Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”
20(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)
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33So the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him.
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49Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled.”
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42and they said,“Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say,‘I have come down from heaven’?”
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16To those who sold the doves he said,“Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
- Luke 19:45-462 verses69%
45Cleansing the Temple Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,
46saying to them,“It is written,‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
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36What did he mean by saying,‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”
- Matt 12:47-482 verses69%
47Someone told him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you.”
48To the one who had said this, Jesus replied,“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”
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27So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,
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17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”
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27(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)
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7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”
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33Questions About the Greatest Then they came to Capernaum. After Jesus was inside the house he asked them,“What were you discussing on the way?”
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8He sent them to Bethlehem and said,“Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”
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34You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”
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17Then he began to teach them and said,“Is it not written:‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
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38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”
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11The Parable of the Compassionate Father Then Jesus said,“A man had two sons.
- Mark 3:32-343 verses67%
32A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”
33He answered them and said,“Who are my mother and my brothers?”
34And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers!
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37When they found him, they said,“Everyone is looking for you.”
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21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.
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37For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me,‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me is being fulfilled.”
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16Rejection at Nazareth Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,
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15He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled:“I called my Son out of Egypt.”
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13And he said to them,“It is written,‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”
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8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
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17When they saw him, they related what they had been told about this child,
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43But Jesus said to them,“I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”
- John 14:9-102 verses66%
9Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?
10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.
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55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.
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55Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother named Mary? And aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
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4Jesus replied,“Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.”