Luke 2:49

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^49–50He said, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I had to be here, dealing with the things of my Father?”

And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”

“Why were you searching for me?” he asked them. “Didn’t you know that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house?”

“But why did you need to search?” he asked. “Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

And he said to them, “Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that it was necessary for me to be in the house of my Father?”

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?

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