Verse 49

But he replied,“Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Referenced Verses

• 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.”