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Luke 2:44
But they, supposing Him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
But they, supposing Him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
Verse 44. _SUPPOSING HIM TO HAVE BEEN IN THE COMPANY_] Some have supposed that the men and women marched in separate companies on these occasions, which is very likely; and that sometimes the _childr...
SUPPOSING HIM TO HAVE BEEN IN THE COMPANY - It may seem very remarkable that parents should not have been more attentive to their only son, and that they should not have been assured of his presence w...
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...
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...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
SUPPOSING. surely reckoning. See note on Luke 3:23. THE COMPANY: i.e. in the caravan. A DAY'S JOURNEY. Probably to _Beeroth,_ about six miles north of Jerusalem. Now _Bireh._ SOUGHT. searched up an...
_went a day's journey_ Probably to _Beeroth_, six miles north of Jerusalem. In the numerous and rejoicing caravans of kinsmen and fellow-countrymen relations are often separated without feeling any an...
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. ...
ἮΛΘΟΝ ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ὉΔΌΝ. Probably to _Beeroth_, six miles north of Jerusalem. In the numerous and rejoicing caravans of kinsmen and fellow-countrymen relations are often separated without feeling any anxiet...
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...
ΝΟΜΊΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part._ (причины) ΝΟΜΊΖΩ (G3543) полагать, верить, ΕΊΝΑΙ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Inf._ используется для дополнения гл., передавая содержание их предположения. П...
SUPPOSING HIM TO HAVE BEEN IN THE COMPANY— Several families then travelled together, as they do at present on such occasions, in companies, or _caravans,_ as they are called in the East. In these comp...
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...
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...
But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. BUT THEY, SUPPOSING HIM TO HAVE BEEN IN THE COMPANY [ en (G1722...
25 Simeon signifies to _ hear_, and is representative of those in Judah whose ears were open to the law of the Lord and who looked for the fulfillment of the prophetic promises. As the years spoken of...
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...
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...
SUPPOSING HIM TO HAVE BEEN IN THE COMPANY. — The company was probably a large one, consisting of those who had come up to keep the Passover from Nazareth and the neighbouring villages. It is not certa...
_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...
ἐν τῇ συνοδίᾳ, in the company journeying together (σύν, ὁδός, here only in N. T.), a journeying together, then those who so journey. A company would be made up of people from the same neighbourhood, w...
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...
It may be asked how the blessed Virgin and St. Joseph could possibly have come so far without missing him; but we must take notice, that when the people went up to the temple from remote parts of Jude...
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...
1. _The separation: Luke 2:41-45_. The idea of fidelity to the law is prominent also in this narrative. According to Exodus 23:17; Deuteronomy 16:16, men were to present themselves at the sanctuary at...
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...
_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...
44._And thinking that he was in the company _Many passages of Scripture show plainly, that those who came from a distance, at the festivals, to worship in the temple, were accustomed to travel in _com...
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...
BUT THEY SUPPOSING HIM TO HAVE BEEN IN THE COMPANY,.... That travelled together into the same parts, having been, as they, at Jerusalem to keep the feast: WENT A DAY'S JOURNEY; either before they mis...
But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among _their_ kinsfolk and acquaintance. Ver. 44. _Sought him among their kinsfolk_] They knew him to be...
_Now his parents went to Jerusalem at the passover_ As it was usual for those families to do that were remarkably religious, though only the adult males were, by the law, obliged to appear before the...
COMPANY; relatives and friends who travelled with them....
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...
Ver. 44-46. AFTER THREE DAYS possibly here is to be understood from the time they first went from Jerusalem; one day they went forward in their journey, a second day they were coming back, the third d...
Luke 2:44 but G1161 supposing G3543 (G5660) Him G846 been G1511 (G5750) in G1722 company G4923 went
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...
‘But supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey; and they sought for him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance, and when they found him not, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking for...
Luke 2:44. IN THE COMPANY. The band of fellow-travellers. These caravans were often large, and usually made up of those from the same district. A DAY'S JOURNEY. During the day no anxiety would be fe...
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...
IN THE COMPANY (εν τη συνοδια). The caravan going together on the road or way (συν, οδος), a journey in company, then by metonymy the company itself. A common Greek word (Plutarch, Strabo, etc.). T...
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...
WITH THE GROUP. People traveled in large groups for protection against wild animals and bandits, as well as to have someone to talk to. Since Jesus had probably been there every year, it would be reas...
_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 they sought Him among their kinsfolk_ OUT OF COMPANY WITH JESUS It seems scarcely credible that that fond mother--that model of what a mother ought to be--could have gone a whole day’s journey...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:43 A DAY’S JOURNEY. About 20 miles (32 km). ⇐ ⇔...
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...
_But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance_, who had gone on, and with whom Mary and Joseph who were about to...
_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...
Isaiah 2:3; Psalms 122:1; Psalms 42:4...
The company [σ υ ν ο δ ι α]. From sun, with, and oJdov, the way. The company that shared the journey. Went a day's journey. Before they missed him. They sought [α ν ε ζ η τ ο υ ν]. From ajna, from t...
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...
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...
Supposing him to have been in the company — As the men and women usually travelled in distinct companies....