New English Translation

Luke 2:47-52 New English Translation (NET)

47. And all who heard Jesus were astonished at his understanding and his answers.

48. When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him, “Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.”

49. But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

50. Yet his parents did not understand the remark he made to them.

51. Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.

52. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.