Weymouth New Testament WNT
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46 On the third day they found Him in the Temple sitting among the Rabbis, both listening to them and asking them questions,
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After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
47 while all who heard Him were astonished at His intelligence and at the answers He gave.
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Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.
48 When they saw Him, they were smitten with amazement, and His mother said to Him, "My child, why have you behaved thus to us? Your father and I have been searching for you in anguish."
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When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”
49 "Why is it that you have been searching for me?" He replied; "did you not know that it is my duty to be engaged upon my Father's business?"
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“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”
50 But they did not understand the significance of these words.
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But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
51 Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was always obedient to them; but His mother carefully treasured up all these incidents in her memory.
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Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.
52 And as Jesus grew older He gained in both wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
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And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
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