Luke 2:43
Good News Translation
When the festival was over, they started back home, but the boy Jesus stayed in Jerusalem. His parents did not know this;

New Revised Standard Version
When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

Contemporary English Version
After Passover his parents left, but they did not know that Jesus had stayed on in the city.

New American Bible
After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem. And his parents knew it not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem. And his parents knew it not.

2 Chronicles 30:21-23 And the children of Israel, that were found at Jerusalem, kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy, praising the Lord every day. the Levites also, and the priests, with instruments that agreed to their office. . . .

2 Chronicles 25:17 Then Amasias king of Juda taking very bad counsel, sent to Joas the son of Joachaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let us see one another.

Context
The Boy Jesus at the Temple
42And when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast, 43And having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem. And his parents knew it not. 44And thinking that he was in the company, they came a day's journey and sought him among their kinsfolks and acquaintance.…
Cross References
Exodus 12:15
Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.

Luke 2:42
And when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast,

Luke 2:44
And thinking that he was in the company, they came a day's journey and sought him among their kinsfolks and acquaintance.

Luke 2:42
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