George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Luke 2:50
They understood not, &c. That is, knew not when, or by what means, Christ designed to make himself known to the world. (Witham)
They understood not, &c. That is, knew not when, or by what means, Christ designed to make himself known to the world. (Witham)
THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT ... - It is remarkable that they did not understand Jesus in this, but it shows how slow persons are to believe. Even his parents, after all that had taken place, did not seem to c...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Birth of Christ at Bethlehem (Luke 2:1)_ 2. The Glad Tidings Announced to the Shepherds. (Luke 2:8) 3. The Circumcision and Presentation (Luke 2:21) 4. Simeon and His Prophecy ...
AN INCIDENT IN JESUS-' BOYHOOD. The lad grows in body and mind and is blessed by God. When He is twelve years old He accompanies His parents to the Passover at Jerusalem, and when the week's Feast is...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years of age, they went up according to the custom of the feast, and when they had completed the days o...
UNDERSTOOD NOT. Compare Luke 9:45; Luke 18:34.Mark 9:32; 2 John 1:10; 2 John 1:10;...
_they understood not_ Words which might stand as the epitome of much of His ministry, Luke 9:45; Luke 18:34; Mark 9:32; John 10:6;...
The Passover Visit to the Temple 41. _his parents_ The great Rabbi Hillel had _recommended_women to attend the Passover. It was not enjoined by the Law, but the Jews admired it as a pious practice. ...
ΟΥ̓ ΣΥΝΗ͂ΚΑΝ. Words which might stand as the epitome of much of His ministry, Luke 9:45; Luke 18:34; Mark 9:32; John 10:6;...
THE PASSOVER VISIT TO THE TEMPLE...
Ver 42. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusal...
ΣΥΝΉΚΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΊΗΜΙ (G4920) собирать вместе, понимать, усваивать. ΈΛΆΛΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 2:15....
THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THE SAYING— They did not fully comprehend the meaning of this expression. The phrase implies, that there was something more in Christ's words than at first appeared....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Puzzles (Luke 2:39-52) 39 And when they had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. 40And the chi...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Scripture_ Luke 2:41-52 And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up after the custom of the feas...
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. AND THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THE SAYING WHICH HE SPAKE UNTO THEM. Probably He had never said so much to them, and so they were confounded; th...
48 Though Herod was dead and Archelaus had been banished by this time, the absence of their Son no doubt revived the dread, inspired by the massacre of the babes of Bethlehem, which caused them to dw...
BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS 1-5. The census of Quirinius. There are two historical difficulties in connexion with St. Luke's mention of the census of Quirinius: (1) There is no direct evidence, exce...
THE BOY JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. We know nothing directly of the childhood of Jesus except this one incident, which is recorded entirely for the sake of the remarkable utterance in Luke 2:49. 41. As wome...
UNDERSTOOD NOT] The lapse of twelve years during which no miracle had occurred, had partly obliterated the impression made by the remarkable circumstances of the Nativity. This and the next v. furnish...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 THE BIRTH OF JESUS 2:1-7 V1 At that time *Caesar Augustus ordered a *census in the *Roman *empire. V2 This was the first *census when Quirinius gov...
They understood not the saying. — We are apt to think that they should have understood, and sceptical criticism has seen in this a contradiction to the previous history of the Annunciation and the Bir...
οὐ συνῆκαν, they did not understand; no wonder! Even we do not yet fully understand....
_When twelve years old_. Lk. here relates one solitary, significant incident from the early years of Jesus, as if to say: from this, learn all. The one story shows the wish to collect anecdotes of tho...
THE BOY JESUS IN THE TEMPLE Luke 2:40-52 “Solitary floweret,” says Stier, referring to this incident, “gathered from the wonderful enclosed garden of the thirty years and plucked precisely when the...
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, under the yoke of an oppressor. Moreover, by the exigency of the circumstances, He was born amid the homeless crowd. This was according to the divine arrangement and foret...
JESUS TWELVE YEARS OLD This inspired omission of our Lord's biography the first thirty years of His life, with the single exception of His visit to Jerusalem when twelve years old, has been a puzzle t...
2. _The meeting: Luke 2:46-50_. As it is improbable that they had sought for Jesus for two or three days without going to the temple, the three days must certainly date from the time of separation. T...
SEVENTH NARRATIVE: THE CHILD JESUS AT JERUSALEM, LUKE 2:41-52. The following incident, the only one which the historian relates about the youth of Jesus, is an instance of that wisdom which marked His...
(41) Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. (42) And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast. (43) And when they had...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_A CONDITION OF LIFE_ ‘Wist ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?’ Luke 2:49 The lessons to be drawn from this incident are sufficiently obvious. Work is a condition of life. It is in i...
_THE TEMPLE AND THE HOME_ ‘When He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem.… And He went down with them, … and was subject unto them.’ Luke 2:42 In this passage we learn something of Christ...
In the next chapter (2) the scene changes. Instead of the relations of God with Israel according to grace, we see first the pagan emperor of the world the head of Daniel's last empire exercising his p...
AND THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THE SAYING,.... What he meant by his Father's house, or his Father's business, and the necessity of his being there, and about that: WHICH HE SPAKE UNTO THEM; at that time, an...
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. Ver. 50. _They understood not_] Yet were well versed in the Scriptures. If God give us not night as well as light, we are still to seek....
_And when they saw him they were amazed_ The clause, thus rendered, signifies, that Joseph and Mary were amazed when they saw him, but it may be translated, _They who saw him were amazed_, namely, not...
UNDERSTOOD NOT THE SAYING; about being occupied with his Father's business; especially, why he should call God his Father in so high and peculiar a sense....
AND THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THE SAYING WHICH HE SPAKE UNTO THEM. The three days' search with its attendant anxiety may well have aroused the thought in Mary's heart that the prophecy of Simeon was even no...
His Father's business:...
THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-7) God in His sovereign wisdom and power at this time ordered the events of man's government to accomplish His own will. Caesar Augustus decreed that all the world ...
41-52 It is for the honour of Christ that children should attend on public worship. His parents did not return till they had stayed all the seven days of the feast. It is well to stay to the end of a...
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Luke 2:50 But G2532 they G846 not G3756 understand G4920 (G5656) statement G4487 which G3739 spoke G2980 ...
JESUS GOES UP TO THE TEMPLE AND RECEIVES UNDERSTANDING IN THE THINGS OF GOD IN HIS FATHER'S PRESENCE (2:41-51). We are now given an example of how He has developed through the years, for He meets up...
‘And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them.' Meanwhile they did not understand what He was talking about. They could not appreciate the depth of his feeling about being with His Fa...
THIS section gives an example of the wisdom just spoken of (Luke 2:40), the more significant because the incident occurred at the age (twelve years) when a Jewish boy became a ‘son of the law,' was fi...
THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT (ου συνηκαν). First aorist active indicative (one of the k aorists). Even Mary with all her previous preparation and brooding was not equal to the dawning of the Messianic consc...
Luke 2:49 The Epiphany of Work. This Gospel may be called the Epiphany of Christ to the world of youth to that large portion of the great human family which has life before it, with its boundless cap...
Luke 2:41 This passage is one of peculiar interest, as this account which it gives is the only circumstance mentioned of our blessed Lord from His childhood till He was thirty years of age. And while...
CONTENTS: Birth of Jesus. His adoration by the shepherds. Adoration and prophecy of Simon and Anna. Return to Nazareth. Jesus and His parents at the Passover. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Caesar, Augustus, Cyr...
Luke 2:1. _It came to pass in those days,_ when John was born, and when the Roman emperor, Augustus Cæsar, filled the throne, and was in the thirty first year of his reign, that, a decree was issued f...
BUT THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND. They thought of him as "their son," and did not understand what he said about his Father's house,...
_Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover_ THE LIFE OF JESUS I. JESUS CHRIST IN HOME LIFE. “And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto th...
_And was subject unto them--_ OBEDIENCE TO PARENTS How significant a sentence! God, whom the angels obey, is subject to Joseph and Mary I Children, behold your model, and learn from the example of J...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:50 AND THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND. For similar misunderstandings, see Luke 9:45; Luke 18:34
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:1 Luke records the events of Jesus’ birth (vv. Luke 2:1), his presentation in the temple (vv. Luke 2:21), and his visit
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _And it came to pass in those days_ (in which John the Baptist was born) _there went forth a decree_, &c. The Syriac for "all the world," has "all the people of his dominion," subjec...
Observe here how God joins and couples in Christ the humble with the sublime, the human with the divine, the poison with the antidote, to show that in Him human nature was joined to the Divine Majesty...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:40. WAXED STRONG.—The words “in spirit” are added from Luke 1:80; omitted in R.V. FILLED WITH WISDOM.—Lit. “becoming full of wisdom.” THE GRACE OF GOD.—The favour of God. The f...
EXPOSITION LUKE 2:1 _The Redeemer's birth_. LUKE 2:1 THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED; more accurately, _that there should be a registration_, etc.;...
Now it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And the taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syra.) And all we...
Luke 18:34; Luke 9:45...
The saying [τ ο ρ η μ α]. See on chapter Luke 1:37....
THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS _Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
THE CHILDHOOD OF CHRIST Luke 2:40 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now into the study of a Holy Child. He was a Child different from any other child ever born of woman. As preparatory to the study proper...
It is observable that Joseph is not mentioned after this time; whence it is probable, he did not live long after....
The most material passage of our Saviour's life for the first twelve years is here recorded; namely, his disputing with the doctors in the temple: how he spent the next eighteen years, namely, till he...