New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "Why did you have to look for me? Didn't you know that I would be in my Father's house?"

New American Bible
And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about my father's business?

And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about my father's business?

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Luke 2:48 And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

Psalm 40:8 That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

Malachi 3:1 Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold, he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the chairs of them that sold doves.

John 2:16,17 And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic. . . .

John 4:34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

John 5:17 But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.

John 6:38 Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me.

John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: and he hath not left me alone. For I do always the things that please him.

John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.