And he said unto them,
How is it that you sought me? knew you not that I must be about my Father's business?
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
Some passages, also, which occur in the Gospels, receive from them a colouring of the same kind, such as the answer which He gave His mother when He was twelve years of age: "Wist ye not that I must be about My Father's business? "