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Selected Verse: Luke 2:45 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Lu 2:45	Strong Concordance	And [2532] when they found [2147] him [846] not [3361], they turned back again [5290] to [1519] Jerusalem [2419], seeking [2212] him [846].
	King James	And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
After three sorrowing days, they find Him still in Jerusalem, not gazing on its architecture, or surveying its forms of busy life, but in the temple--not the "sanctuary" (as in Luk 1:9), to which only the priests had access, but in some one of the enclosures around it, where the rabbins, or "doctors," taught their scholars.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

After three sorrowing days, they find Him still in Jerusalem, not gazing on its architecture, or surveying its forms of busy life, but in the temple--not the "sanctuary" (as in Luk 1:9), to which only the priests had access, but in some one of the enclosures around it, where the rabbins, or "doctors," taught their scholars.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]
Seeking him (ἀναζητοῦντες) All the way as they went. Force of ἀνὰ, as above.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]

Seeking him (ἀναζητοῦντες)

All the way as they went. Force of ἀνὰ, as above.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Seeking him - Ζητουντες αυτον - or rather, seeking him diligently, αναζητουντες. This is the reading of BCDL, six others, Vulgate, and nine copies of the Itala. If they sought earnestly when they first found him missing, there is little doubt that their solicitude and diligence must be greatly increased during his three days' absence, therefore the word which I have adopted, on the above authority, is more likely to be the true reading than the ζητουντες of the common text, which simply signifies seeking; whereas the other strongly marks their solicitude and diligence.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Seeking him - Ζητουντες αυτον - or rather, seeking him diligently, αναζητουντες. This is the reading of BCDL, six others, Vulgate, and nine copies of the Itala. If they sought earnestly when they first found him missing, there is little doubt that their solicitude and diligence must be greatly increased during his three days' absence, therefore the word which I have adopted, on the above authority, is more likely to be the true reading than the ζητουντες of the common text, which simply signifies seeking; whereas the other strongly marks their solicitude and diligence.

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