Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And it came to pass, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them,

New American Standard Bible

Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

King James Version

And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

Holman Bible

After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

International Standard Version

Three days later, they found him in the Temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and posing questions to them.

A Conservative Version

And it came to pass after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and questioning them.

American Standard Version

And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions:

Amplified

Three days later they found Him in the [court of the] temple, sitting among the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

An Understandable Version

And it happened after three days that they found Him in the Temple, sitting in the middle of the [Jewish] teachers, listening to them and asking questions.

Anderson New Testament

And it came to pass, after three days, that they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

Bible in Basic English

And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them.

Common New Testament

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Daniel Mace New Testament

three days after they found him in the temple, sitting near the doctors, attending to them and asking them questions.

Darby Translation

And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers and hearing them and asking them questions.

Godbey New Testament

And it came to pass, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and asking them questions.

Goodspeed New Testament

And on the third day they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

John Wesley New Testament

And after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions.

Julia Smith Translation

And it was after three days they found him in the temple, sitting, in the midst of teachers, and bearing them, and inquiring of them.

King James 2000

And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And it happened that after three days they found him in the temple [courts], sitting in the midst of the teachers and listening to them and asking them [questions].

Modern King James verseion

And it happened that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And it fortuned, after three days, that they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors: both hearing them, and posing them.

Moffatt New Testament

Three days later they found him in the temple, seated among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

Montgomery New Testament

On the third day they found him sitting in the Temple, among the Rabbis, both listening to them and asking questions.

NET Bible

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

New Heart English Bible

It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

Noyes New Testament

And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

Sawyer New Testament

And after three days they found him sitting in the temple in the midst of the teachers, both hearing and questioning them.

The Emphasized Bible

And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting amidst the teachers, - both hearkening unto them, and questioning them.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And it came to pass after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions.

Twentieth Century New Testament

It was not till the third day that they found him in the Temple Courts, sitting among the Teachers, now listening to them, now asking them questions.

Webster

And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

Weymouth New Testament

On the third day they found Him in the Temple sitting among the Rabbis, both listening to them and asking them questions,

Williams New Testament

And after three days they finally found Him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

World English Bible

It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

Worsley New Testament

and after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, attending to them and asking them questions.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

it came to pass
γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

μετά 
meta 
with, after, among, hereafter , afterward , against, not tr,
Usage: 346

τρεῖς τρία 
Treis 
Usage: 51

ἡμέρα 
hemera 
day, daily 9, time, not tr,
Usage: 287

εὑρίσκω 
heurisko 
find,
Usage: 130

him

Usage: 0

in
ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

the temple
ἱερόν 
Hieron 
Usage: 64

καθέζομαι 
Kathezomai 
sit
Usage: 5

the midst
μέσος 
mesos 
Usage: 48

of the doctors
διδάσκαλος 
Didaskalos 
Usage: 48


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313




Usage: 0
Usage: 0

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

ἐπερωτάω 
Eperotao 
Usage: 55

References

Images Luke 2:46

Context Readings

Jesus In The Temple At Twelve Years Old

45 and not having found him, they turned back to Jerusalem seeking him. 46 And it came to pass, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them, 47 and all those hearing him were astonished at his understanding and answers.


Cross References

Luke 5:17

And it came to pass, on one of the days, that he was teaching, and there were sitting by Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who were come out of every village of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was -- to heal them.

1 Kings 12:5

And he saith unto them, 'Go -- yet three days, and come back unto me;' and the people go.

1 Kings 12:12

And they come -- Jeroboam and all the people -- unto Rehoboam, on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, 'Come back unto me on the third day.'

Isaiah 49:1-2

Hearken, O isles, unto me, And attend, O peoples, from afar, Jehovah from the womb hath called me, From the bowels of my mother He hath made mention of my name.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.

Matthew 12:40

for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

Matthew 16:21

From that time began Jesus to shew to his disciples that it is necessary for him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be put to death, and the third day to rise.

Matthew 27:63-64

saying, 'Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise;

Luke 2:44-45

and, having supposed him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, and were seeking him among the kindred and among the acquaintances,

Acts 5:34

but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim -- a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people -- commanded to put the apostles forth a little,

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