Luke 2:46
44 Assuming He was in their company, they traveled on for a day before they began to look for Him among their relatives and friends.
45 When they could not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him.
Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
47 And all who heard Him were astounded at His understanding and His answers.
48 When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. “Child, why have You done this to us?” His mother asked. “Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
- KJV
- And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
- WEB
- After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.
- ASV
- And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions:
- DARBY
- And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers and hearing them and asking them questions.
- BLB
- And it came to pass after three days [that] they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them.
- ÅB
- Og det skjedde tre dager deretter, da fant de ham i templet; der satt han midt iblant lærerne og hørte på dem og spurte dem,
- OTB
- Etter tre dager fant de ham i tempelet, der han satt blant lærerne, lyttet til dem og stilte spørsmål.
- B1930
- Og det skjedde tre dager derefter, da fant de ham i templet; der satt han midt iblandt lærerne og hørte på dem og spurte dem,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 49:1–2
Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
Read in contextLuke 5:17
One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.
Read in contextIsaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
Read in contextActs 5:34
But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time.
Read in contextMatthew 27:63–64
“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
Read in contextMatthew 12:40
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Read in context1 Kings 12:5
Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
Read in contextLuke 2:44–45
Assuming He was in their company, they traveled on for a day before they began to look for Him among their relatives and friends.
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