Luke 2:49 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Luke 2:49 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  How is it ... - “Why” have ye sought me with so much anxiety? “Mary” should have known that the Son of God was safe; that his heavenly Father would take care of him, and that he could do nothing...

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• Luke 2:49 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  An Incident in Jesus-' Boyhood. The lad grows in body and mind and is blessed by God. When He is twelve years old He accompanies His parents to the Passover at Jerusalem, and when the week's Feast...

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• Luke 2:49 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wist ye not . knew ye not. Greek. oida. See App-132. must. These are the first recorded words of the Lord. The reference is to Psalms 40:5-11 ; John 4:34 . Hence the Divine necessity. Compare...

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• Luke 2:49 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  49. Did ye not know? Our Lord justly blames his mother, though he does it in a gentle and indirect manner. The amount of what he says is, that the duty which he owes to God his Father, ought...

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• Luke 2:49 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1479 CHRIST’S EARLY HABITS Luke 2:49 . And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me. wist ye not that I mutt be about my Father’s business? THE prophets and apostles of old ar...

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• Luke 2:49 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? How is it that ye sought me? - Is not this intended as a gentle reproof? Why had ye me to se...

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• Luke 2:49 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Wist ye not, &c.— Some render this, Know ye not that I must be in my Father's house? With this translation the Syriac version agrees: and it is certain that the Greek will well bear this tran...

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• Luke 2:49 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist (knew) ye not that I must b...

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• Luke 2:49 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Birth and Childhood of Jesus 1-5. The census of Quirinius. There are two historical difficulties in connexion with St. Luke's mention of the census of Quirinius: (1) There is no direct evidence, e...

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• Luke 2:49 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Wist ye not...? — This is, as it were, the holy Child’s defence against the implied reproach in. His mother’s question. Had they reflected, there need have been no seeking; they would have known wh...

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• Luke 2:49 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Boy Jesus in the Temple Luke 2:40-52 “Solitary floweret,” says Stier, referring to this incident, “gathered from the wonderful enclosed garden of the thirty years and plucked precisely when...

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• Luke 2:49 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Jesus was born in Bethlehem, under the yoke of an oppressor. Moreover, by the exigency of the circumstances, He was born amid the homeless crowd. This was according to the divine arrangement and fore...

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• Luke 2:49 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (41) Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. (42) And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast. (43) And when they had...

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• Luke 2:49 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE TEMPLE AND THE HOME ‘When He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem.… And He went down with them, … and was subject unto them.’ Luke 2:42-51 In this passage we learn something o...

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• Luke 2:49 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he said unto them, how is it that ye sought me ?.... That is, with so much uneasiness and distress of mind, not trusting in the power and providence of God, to take care of him; and in other pla...

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• Luke 2:49 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? Ver. 49. Wist ye not ] Men, be they pleased or displeased, God must be obeyed.

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• Luke 2:49 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And when they saw him they were amazed The clause, thus rendered, signifies, that Joseph and Mary were amazed when they saw him, but it may be translated, They who saw him were amazed , namely, no...

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• Luke 2:49 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-7) God in His sovereign wisdom and power at this time ordered the events of man's government to accomplish His own will. Caesar Augustus decreed that all the wor...

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• Luke 2:49 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ Sitting with the Doctors.       41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.   42 And when he was...

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• Luke 2:49 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 49,50. Some read it that I must be in my Father's house? Then the sense must be, why did you seek me in any other place than the temple, that is, my Father's house, there lieth my business. Bu...

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• Luke 2:49 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus Goes Up to the Temple and Receives Understanding in the Things of God in His Father's Presence (2:41-51). We are now given an example of how He has developed through the years, for He meets...

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• Luke 2:49 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 2:40 . Waxed strong .—The words “in spirit” are added from Luke 1:80 ; omitted in R.V. Filled with wisdom .—Lit. “becoming full of wisdom.” The grace of God .—The favour o...

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• Luke 2:49 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Luke 2:41-52 This passage is one of peculiar interest, as this account which it gives is the only circumstance mentioned of our blessed Lord from His childhood till He was thirty years of age. And...

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• Luke 2:49 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Luke 2:1 . It came to pass in those days, when John was born, and when the Roman emperor, Augustus Cæsar, filled the throne, and was in the thirty first year of his reign, that, a decree was issue...

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• Luke 2:49 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover The life of Jesus I. JESUS CHRIST IN HOME LIFE. “And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto...

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• Luke 2:49 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 2:1-42 The Redeemer's birth . Luke 2:1 There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed ; more accurately, that there should be a r...

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• Luke 2:49 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  His Father's business:

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• Luke 2:49 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  John 2:16 ; John 2:17 ; John 4:34 ; John 5:17 ; John 6:38 ; John 8:29 ; John 9:4 ; Luke 2:48 ; Malachi 3:1 ; Matthew 21:12 ; Psalms 40:8

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• Luke 2:49 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Seven Magnificats Selections from Luke 1:1-80 and Luke 2:1-52 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Chri...

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• Luke 2:49 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Why sought ye me? — He does not blame them for losing, but for thinking it needful to seek him: and intimates, that he could not be lost, nor found any where, but doing the will of a higher parent....

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