George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Luke 2:49
I must be about the things that are my Father's? By these words he shewed, that not St. Joseph, but only God, was his father. (Witham)
I must be about the things that are my Father's? By these words he shewed, that not St. Joseph, but only God, was his father. (Witham)
Verse Luke 2:49. _HOW IS IT THAT YE SOUGHT ME?_] Is not this intended as a gentle _reproof_? Why had ye me to _seek_? Ye should not have left my company, when ye knew I am constantly employed in perfo...
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 amiss...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Birth of Christ at Bethlehem (Luke 2:1)_ 2. The Glad Tidings Announced to the Shepherds. (Luke 2:8) 3. The Circumcision and Presentation (Luke 2:21) 4. Simeon and His Prophecy ...
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 is...
Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years of age, they went up according to the custom of the feast, and when they had completed the days o...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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; John 4:34. Hence the Divine necessity. Compare Matthew 16:2...
The Passover Visit to the Temple 41. _his parents_ The great Rabbi Hillel had _recommended_women to attend the Passover. It was not enjoined by the Law, but the Jews admired it as a pious practice. ...
_about my Father's business_ Rather, IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE. See Excursus I. These words are very memorable as being _the first recorded words of Jesus_. They bear with them the stamp of authenticity in...
THE PASSOVER VISIT TO THE TEMPLE...
ἘΝ ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΑΤΡΌΣ ΜΟΥ, ‘in my Father’s house.’ The Syriac, Origen, Epiphanius, Theodoret, Theophylact, and Euthymius agree in this rendering. The Vulg[68] (like the Arabic and Aethiopic) leaves the...
Ver 42. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusal...
ΈΖΗΤΕΪ́ΤΕ _impf. ind. act., см._ Luke 2:48. Ή ΔΕΊΤΕ _plperf. ind. act._ def. perf. от ΟΊΔΑ (G1492) знать. Ind. используется с ΟΎΚ (G3756) в вопросе, на который ожидается утвердительный ответ, ΔΕΙ (G...
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 are prop...
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 translation...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Puzzles (Luke 2:39-52) 39 And when they had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. 40And the chi...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Scripture_ Luke 2:41-52 And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up after the custom of the feas...
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 BE ABOU...
48 Though Herod was dead and Archelaus had been banished by this time, the absence of their Son no doubt revived the dread, inspired by the massacre of the babes of Bethlehem, which caused them to dw...
2:49 business? (e-27) Lit. 'To be in the things of my Father.' Elsewhere in New Testament the expression ('to be in the things') only occurs in 1 Timothy 4:15 ....
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, exce...
THE BOY JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. We know nothing directly of the childhood of Jesus except this one incident, which is recorded entirely for the sake of the remarkable utterance in Luke 2:49. 41. As wome...
HOW IS IT] 'Not a reproof, but an expression of surprise. He is not surprised at their coming back for Him, but at their not knowing where to find Him.' ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS] This translation is...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 THE BIRTH OF JESUS 2:1-7 V1 At that time *Caesar Augustus ordered a *census in the *Roman *empire. V2 This was the first *census when Quirinius gov...
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 what...
ἐν τοῖς τοῦ πατρός μον, in the things of my Father (“about my Father's business,” A. V [36]); _therefore_ in the place or _house_ of my Father (R. V [37]); the former may be the verbal translation, bu...
_When twelve years old_. Lk. here relates one solitary, significant incident from the early years of Jesus, as if to say: from this, learn all. The one story shows the wish to collect anecdotes of tho...
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 the...
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 foret...
JESUS TWELVE YEARS OLD This inspired omission of our Lord's biography the first thirty years of His life, with the single exception of His visit to Jerusalem when twelve years old, has been a puzzle t...
SEVENTH NARRATIVE: THE CHILD JESUS AT JERUSALEM, LUKE 2:41-52. The following incident, the only one which the historian relates about the youth of Jesus, is an instance of that wisdom which marked His...
2. _The meeting: Luke 2:46-50_. As it is improbable that they had sought for Jesus for two or three days without going to the temple, the three days must certainly date from the time of separation. T...
(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...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_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 In this passage we learn something of Christ...
_A DIVINE NECESSITY_ ‘Wist ye not that I must?’ Luke 2:49 Our thoughts go out to Him Who is the founder and pattern of our religion, and the use He made in His life on earth of His opportunities of...
_A CONDITION OF LIFE_ ‘Wist ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?’ Luke 2:49 The lessons to be drawn from this incident are sufficiently obvious. Work is a condition of life. It is in i...
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 im...
In the next chapter (2) the scene changes. Instead of the relations of God with Israel according to grace, we see first the pagan emperor of the world the head of Daniel's last empire exercising his p...
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 places...
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....
_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, not...
WIST; knew. ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS; or, among my Father's matters; which was, in this case, studying his Father's law in his Father's house. Parents who regularaly and conscientiously take their c...
His Father's business:...
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, HOW IS IT THAT YE SOUGHT ME? WIST YE NOT THAT I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS?...
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 world ...
41-52 It is for the honour of Christ that children should attend on public worship. His parents did not return till they had stayed all the seven days of the feast. It is well to stay to the end of a...
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. But...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Some passages, also, which occur in the Gospels, receive from them a colouring of the same kind, such as the answer which He gave His mother when He was twelve years...
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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 up...
‘And he said to them, “How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?” ' But Jesus was equally astonished. He too uttered a kind of rebuke. Why had they had to sea...
Luke 2:49. HOW IS IT THAT YE SOUGHT ME, or, ‘were seeking me?' A boy of twelve years would understand the mother's anxiety. (In Oriental countries maturity comes earlier than among us.) Were He only h...
THIS section gives an example of the wisdom just spoken of (Luke 2:40), the more significant because the incident occurred at the age (twelve years) when a Jewish boy became a ‘son of the law,' was fi...
SON (τεκνον). Child, literally. It was natural for Mary to be the first to speak.WHY (Τ). The mother's reproach of the boy is followed by a confession of negligence on her part and of Joseph ( SO...
Luke 2:48 The Finding of Christ in the Temple. I. One of the things which it would have been absolutely impossible for the intellect of a human infant to grasp would be the idea of Divine Sonship, th...
Luke 2:41 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 while...
Luke 2:49 The Epiphany of Work. This Gospel may be called the Epiphany of Christ to the world of youth to that large portion of the great human family which has life before it, with its boundless cap...
Luke 2:40 , LUKE 2:49; LUKE 2:52 (with Mark 6:3; John 4:34;...
CONTENTS: Birth of Jesus. His adoration by the shepherds. Adoration and prophecy of Simon and Anna. Return to Nazareth. Jesus and His parents at the Passover. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Caesar, Augustus, Cyr...
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 issued f...
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR ME? _Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?_ They should have come straight to the temple, These words first reveal his consciousness of his "supernormal...
_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 th...
_Wist ye not that I must be about My Father’s business_ THE EPIPHANY OF WORK 1_._ The Epiphany before us is, in the first place, that of the two lives, the seen and the unseen, the relative and the...
A GREAT AWAKENING Wist ye not that I must be in my Father's house? Luke 2:49. Many of you boys and girls have sat in the gallery of the church on a Communion Sabbath. You thought there was something...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:49 I MUST BE reveals a sense of obligation. IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE indicates that, at age 12, Jesus was clearly aware of being the Son of God. He also understood that teaching would...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:1 Luke records the events of Jesus’ birth (vv. Luke 2:1), his presentation in the temple (vv. Luke 2:21), and his visit
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _And it came to pass in those days_ (in which John the Baptist was born) _there went forth a decree_, &c. The Syriac for "all the world," has "all the people of his dominion," subjec...
Observe here how God joins and couples in Christ the humble with the sublime, the human with the divine, the poison with the antidote, to show that in Him human nature was joined to the Divine Majesty...
_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 of God. The f...
EXPOSITION LUKE 2:1 _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 registration_, etc.;...
Now it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And the taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syra.) And all we...
John 2:16; John 2:17; John 4:34; John 5:17; John 6:38;...
And he said. The first saying of Jesus which is preserved to us. Must [δ ε ι]. Lit., it is necessary, or it behoves. A word often used by Jesus concerning his own appointed work, and expressing both t...
THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS _Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
THE CHILDHOOD OF CHRIST Luke 2:40 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now into the study of a Holy Child. He was a Child different from any other child ever born of woman. As preparatory to the study proper...
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....
Observe here, that Christ blames not his parents for their solicitous care of him, but shows them how able he was to live without any dependency upon them and their care; and also to let them understa...