Luke 2:49 (BSB)
“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”
Commentary on Luke 2:49
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Luke 2:49: 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 to be immeasurably preferred to all human duties; and that, consequently, earthly parents do wrong in taking it amiss, that they have been neglected in comparison of God.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Luke 2:41-52: We have here the only passage of story recorded concerning our blessed Saviour, from his infancy to the day of his showing to Israel at twenty-nine years old, and therefore we are concerned to make much of this, for it is in vain to wish we had more. Here is, I. Christ's going up with his parents to Jerusalem, at the feast of the passover, Luk 2:41, Luk 2:42. 1.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Luke 2:49: And they understood not the saying,.... What he meant by his Father's house, or his Father's business, and the necessity of his being there, and about that: which he spake unto them; at that time, and as above related.
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Luke 2:49: Verse 49. How is it, &c. 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 amiss. Wist ye not. Know ye not. You had reason to know.