Luke 2:45

Green's Literal Translation

And not finding Him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for Him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him.

King James Version (1611)
And when they found him not, they turned backe againe to Hierusalem, seeking him.

King James Version
And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.

English Standard Version
and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him.

New American Standard Bible
And when they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for Him.

New Century Version
When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him there.

Amplified Bible
When they did not find Him, they went back to Jerusalem looking for Him [everywhere].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem looking for Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem searching for Him.

Berean Standard Bible
When they could not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him.

Contemporary English Version
When they could not find him with their relatives and friends, they went back to Jerusalem and started looking for him there.

Complete Jewish Bible
Failing to find him, they returned to Yerushalayim to look for him.

Darby Translation
and not having found him they returned to Jerusalem seeking him.

Easy-to-Read Version
but they did not find him. So they went back to Jerusalem to look for him there.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when they found him not, they turned backe to Hierusalem, and sought him.

George Lamsa Translation
But they could not find him; so they returned again to Jerusalem, looking for him.

Good News Translation
They did not find him, so they went back to Jerusalem looking for him.

Lexham English Bible
and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him.

American Standard Version
and when they found him not, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking for him.

Bible in Basic English
And seeing that he was not there, they went back to Jerusalem, to make search for him.

Hebrew Names Version
When they didn't find him, they returned to Yerushalayim, looking for him.

International Standard Version
When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching desperately for him.

Etheridge Translation
And they found him not: and they returned again to Urishlem, and sought him.

Murdock Translation
And they did not find him. And they returned again to Jerusalem, searching for him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when they founde hym not, they turned backe againe to Hierusalem, and sought hym.

English Revised Version
and when they found him not, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking for him.

World English Bible
When they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And not finding him, they went back to Jerusalem, seeking him.

Weymouth's New Testament
but being unable to find Him they returned to Jerusalem, making anxious inquiry for Him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne thei founden hym not, thei turneden ayen in to Jerusalem, and souyten hym.

Update Bible Version
and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking for him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when they found him not, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him.

New English Translation
When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.

New King James Version
So when they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking Him.

New Living Translation
When they couldn't find him, they went back to Jerusalem to search for him there.

New Life Bible
When they could not find Jesus, they turned back to Jerusalem to look for Him.

New Revised Standard
When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, not finding him, returned unto Jerusalem, seeking him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And not finding him, they returned into Jerusalem, seeking him.

Revised Standard Version
and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And when they founde hym not they went backe agayne to Hierusalem and sought him.

Young's Literal Translation
and not having found him, they turned back to Jerusalem seeking him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And wha they founde him not, they wete agayne to Ierusale, and sought him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
they turn'd back to Jerusalem to enquire for him there.

Simplified Cowboy Version
They searched everywhere. When they couldn't find him, they headed back to Jerusalem.

Contextual Overview

⁴¹ And His parents went into Jerusalem year by year at the Feast of the Passover. ⁴² And when He was twelve years old , they, going up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the Feast, ⁴³ and fulfilling the days, in their returning, the boy Jesus stayed in Jerusalem. And Joseph and His mother did not know. ⁴⁴ But supposing Him to be in the company, they went a day on the way. And they looked for Him among the relatives and friends. ⁴⁵ And not finding Him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for Him. ⁴⁶ And it happened after three days they found Him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers, even hearing them and questioning them. ⁴⁷ And all those hearing Him were amazed at His intelligence and His answers. ⁴⁸ And seeing Him, they were astounded. And His mother said to Him, Child, why did You do so to us? Behold, Your father and I were looking for You, greatly distressed. ⁴⁹ And He said to them, Why did you look for me? Did you not know that I must be busy in the affairs of My Father? ⁵⁰ And they did not understand the word which He spoke to them.

Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when they found him not,.... In the company that came from Jerusalem with them, nor among any of their relations and friends, with whom they supposed he was:

they turned back again to Jerusalem, that is, the next morning, for it can hardly be thought they would set out that night, after they had travelled all day, without taking some repose:

seeking him; at Jerusalem, in the streets and broad places of it; a figure of the church and ordinances, where souls look for, and inquire after their beloved, when they have lost him, Song of Solomon 3:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 45. Seeking him. — ζητουντες αυτον - or rather, seeking him diligently, ανζητουντες. 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.