LUKE 2:50 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, cyan:dative/indirect object, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

AICNT And they did not understand the word that he spoke [to them].[fn]

2:50, to them: Absent from Latin(e).

OEB His parents did not understand what he meant.

WEBBE They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them.

WMBB (Same as above)

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

LSV And they did not understand the saying that He spoke to them,

FBV But they didn't understand what he meant.

TCNT But they did not understand what he said to them.

T4T But they did not understand the meaning of what he said to them.

LEB And they did not understand the statement that he spoke to them.

BBE And his words seemed strange to them.

Moff But they did not understand what he said.

Wymth But they did not understand the significance of these words.

ASV And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

DRA And they understood not the word that he spoke unto them.

YLT and they did not understand the saying that he spake to them,

Drby And they understood not the thing that he said to them.

RV And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

SLT And they understood not the word which he spake to them.

Wbstr And they understood not the saying which he spoke to them.

KJB-1769 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

KJB-1611 And they vnderstood not the saying which he spake vnto them.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps And they vnderstoode not that saying which he spake vnto them.
(And they understood not that saying which he spake unto them.)

Gnva But they vnderstoode not the word that he spake to them.
(But they understood not the word that he spake to them. )

Cvdl And they vnderstode not the sayenge yt he spake vnto them.
(And they understood not the saying it he spake unto them.)

TNT And they vnderstode not the sayinge that he spake to them.
(And they understood not the saying that he spake to them. )

Wycl And thei vndurstoden not the word, which he spak to hem.
(And they understood not the word, which he spake to hem.)

Luth Und sie verstunden das Wort nicht, das er mit ihnen redete.
(And they/she/them understooden the word not, the he with to_them talked.)

ClVg Et ipsi non intellexerunt verbum quod locutus est ad eos.
(And themselves not/no they_understood the_word/saying that spoke it_is to them. )

UGNT καὶ αὐτοὶ οὐ συνῆκαν τὸ ῥῆμα ὃ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς.
(kai autoi ou sunaʸkan to ɽaʸma ho elalaʸsen autois.)

SBL-GNT καὶ αὐτοὶ οὐ συνῆκαν τὸ ῥῆμα ὃ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς.
(kai autoi ou sunaʸkan to ɽaʸma ho elalaʸsen autois.)

RP-GNT Καὶ αὐτοὶ οὐ συνῆκαν τὸ ῥῆμα ὃ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς.
(Kai autoi ou sunaʸkan to ɽaʸma ho elalaʸsen autois.)

TC-GNT Καὶ αὐτοὶ οὐ συνῆκαν τὸ ῥῆμα ὃ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς.
(Kai autoi ou sunaʸkan to ɽaʸma ho elalaʸsen autois. )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 2:41–52: The boy Jesus spoke with the teachers

In this section, Joseph and Mary took Jesus to the Feast of the Passover in Jerusalem. This may have been Jesus’ first time to go there for Passover. While Jesus was in Jerusalem, he went to the Temple and discussed religious matters with Jewish religious leaders.

When Joseph and Mary left Jerusalem to return to Nazareth, they traveled with a group of people. They did not realize that Jesus had stayed in Jerusalem and was not traveling with them. This may have happened because of the way Jews normally walked in smaller groups when they traveled together. The women and small children walked ahead since they traveled more slowly. A boy normally traveled with his mother. But when he became a man, perhaps as early as twelve years old, he traveled with his father. So, as they returned from Jerusalem, Mary probably thought that Jesus was with Joseph, and Joseph may have thought that he was with Mary. Joseph and Mary traveled for a whole day before they realized that Jesus was not with them. The events in this section show three things:

Joseph and Mary did not know where Jesus was;
they did not know exactly what he was telling them when they found him;
by the age of twelve (or before), Jesus was aware that he was God’s Son.

Some other possible headings for this section are:

Mary and Joseph Find Jesus With the Teachers in the Temple Courtyard (GW)

Jesus when he was twelve years old

2:50

But they did not understand the statement He was making to them.

But Mary and Joseph did not understand what Jesus meant when he said this to them.
But his parents did not comprehend the meaning of what he said to them.

But they did not understand the statement He was making to them: The pronoun they refers to Joseph and Mary. Joseph and Mary heard what Jesus said (2:49), but they did not understand what he meant.

Parallel LUKE 2:50

Section 2:41–52: The boy Jesus spoke with the teachers

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