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Luke 2:49
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?
Luke 2:49 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Luke 2:49 in other translations
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house ?”
He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
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In context
46 And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and asking them questions.
47 And all that heard him were astonished at his wisdom and his answers.
48 And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
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?
50 And they understood not the word that he spoke unto them.
51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.
52 And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men.
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