Luke 2:49

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And he said unto them, `Why `is it' that ye were seeking me? did ye not know that in the things of my Father it behoveth me to be?'

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  • Mal 3:1 : 1 Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
  • John 5:17 : 17 And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'
  • John 6:38 : 38 because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.
  • John 8:29 : 29 and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law `is' within my heart.
  • John 9:4 : 4 it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --
  • Matt 21:12 : 12 And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves,
  • Luke 2:48 : 48 And, having seen him, they were amazed, and his mother said unto him, `Child, why didst thou thus to us? lo, thy father and I, sorrowing, were seeking thee.'
  • John 2:16-17 : 16 and to those selling the doves he said, `Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.' 17 And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'

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    39And when they finished all things, according to the Law of the Lord, they turned back to Galilee, to their city Nazareth;

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    42and when he became twelve years old, they having gone up to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast,

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    44and, having supposed him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, and were seeking him among the kindred and among the acquaintances,

    45and not having found him, they turned back to Jerusalem seeking him.

    46And it came to pass, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them,

    47and all those hearing him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

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