Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 2:33
Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken — For they did not thoroughly understand them.
Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken — For they did not thoroughly understand them.
LUKE 2:33 o` path.r auvtou/ kai. h` mh,thr {B} In order to safeguard the doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus, o` path,r was replaced by VIwsh,f in a variety of witnesses, some of them ancient (Old...
Verse 33. _JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER MARVELLED_] For they did not as yet fully know the counsels of God, relative to the salvation which Christ was to procure; nor the _way_ in which the purchase was to b...
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 ...
SIMEON. As the family enters the Temple they are met by Simeon, an aged man whose devout life and expectation of Messiah had been rewarded by a Divine intimation that he should live to see the Christ....
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
Now--look you--there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon. This man was good and pious. He was waiting for the comforting of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. He had received a message from the...
JOSEPH. Most of' the texts (not the Syriac) read "His father". MARVELLED. were marvelling. AT. Greek. _epi._ App-104. Not the same word as in Luke 2:18. OF. concerning. Greek. _peri._ App-104. Not t...
_Joseph_ The undoubted reading is "_His father_," א, B, D, L, &c. _of him_ Rather, ABOUT HIM....
Simeon and the Nunc Dimittis 25. _a man … whose name was Simeon_ This cannot be Rabban Shimeon the son of Hillel (whom the Talmud is on this account supposed to pass over almost unnoticed), because h...
Ὁ ΠΑΤῊΡ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΚΑῚ Ἡ ΜΉΤΗΡ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂. So אBDL, Vulg[51] and various Fathers. It may have been altered from dogmatic prejudices into Ἰωσὴφ καὶ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ. [51] Vulg. Vulgate. 33. Ὁ ΠΑΤῊΡ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂. T...
SIMEON AND THE NUNC DIMITTIS...
VER 33. AND JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER MARVELED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN OF HIM. 34. AND SIMEON BLESSED THEM, AND SAID TO MARY HIS MOTHER, BEHOLD, THIS CHILD IS SET FOR THE FALL AND RISING AGAIN O...
ΘΑΥΜΆΖΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part., см._ Luke 2:18. Part, в перифр. обороте....
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Presenting the Child to the Lord Scripture_ Luke 2:22-40 And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Prophecies (Luke 2:22-38) 22 And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23(a...
And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. AND JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER - or, according to what is probably the true reading here, 'And his father and mother,' MA...
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...
JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER] RV 'his father and his mother.' Since Joseph filled the place of a father to Jesus, he was naturally called his father: cp. Luke 2:27, 'the parents.' 34, 35. These vv. contain...
THE PURIFICATION AND PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. Women after childbirth were unclean, for a boy forty days, for a girl eighty days. They were then bound to present an offering for Purification, viz. a...
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...
AND JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER. — The better MSS. give, _His father and his mother._ The present reading has apparently been substituted for this through feelings of reverence, but it has quite sufficient...
ἦν : the construction is peculiar, the verb singular, and the participle, forming with it a periphrastic imperfect, plural = was the father, and was the mother, together wondering. _Vide_ Winer, § 58,...
THE AGED SIMEON'S PROPHETIC BLESSING Luke 2:25-39 Two aged watchers welcomed the King; but no one else, of all the crowds who went and came, guessed that the Messenger of the Covenant had suddenly c...
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...
In the Greek, _Joseph and the mother of Jesus. (Bible de Vence)_...
CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS & HIS PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE 21-24. _“And when the eight days for circumcising Him were fulfilled, and He was called Jesus, being called by the angel before he was conceived...
A carnal satisfaction, full of delusive hopes might easily have taken possession of the hearts of these parents, especially of the mother's, on hearing such words as these. But Simeon infuses into his...
SIXTH NARRATIVE: CIRCUMCISION AND PRESENTATION OF JESUS, LUKE 2:21-40. This narrative comprises 1. The circumcision of Jesus (Luke 2:21); 2. His presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-38); 3. A histori...
(25) And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon: and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. (26) And it was reve...
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...
33._And his father and mother were wondering _Luke does not say, that they were astonished at it as a new thing, but that they contemplated with reverence, and embraced with becoming admiration, this...
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 JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER,.... The Vulgate Latin reads, "and his father and mother". The Ethiopic version retains both his name and his relation, and reads, "and Joseph his father, and his mother"; bu...
And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. Ver. 33. _Marvelled at those things_] Saints, the more they see into the mystery of Christ, the more are they transported...
_Behold there was a man_, &c. There was now in Jerusalem one Simeon, venerable on account of his age, piety, and virtue. For, _he was just and devout_ Righteous toward his fellow-creatures, and holy t...
Simeon blesses Joseph and Mary:...
AND JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER MARVELED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN OF HIM....
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 ...
25-35 The same Spirit that provided for the support of Simeon's hope, provided for his joy. Those who would see Christ must go to his temple. Here is a confession of his faith, that this Child in his...
Brentius notes on this text, _Non admirantur quia non credunt, sed quia credunt ideo admirantur, _ They did not admire because they did not believe, but because they believed therefore they marvelled....
Luke 2:33 And G2532 Joseph G2501 and G2532 His G846 mother G3384 marveled G2258 (G5713) G2296 ...
‘And his father and his mother were marvelling at the things which were spoken concerning him, and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother,' “Behold, this child is set for the falling and th...
JESUS IS CIRCUMCISED AND PRESENTED AT THE TEMPLE AND IS BLESSED BY SIMON WHO PROPHESIES OVER HIM (2:21-35). The purification of Mary and Jesus from the ritual defilement of child birth was necessary d...
Luke 2:33. AND HIS FATHER. ‘Joseph' was substituted at an early date. ‘The parents' are spoken of in Luke 2:27 (comp, the words of Mary, Luke 2:48). Our Lord, however, is never rep-resented as calling...
The fulfilment of the legal requirements respecting the child Jesus: His circumcision and naming on the eighth day (Luke 2:21), as one of the Jewish people, and the redemption from the temple service...
HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER (ο πατηρ αυτου κα η μητηρ). Luke had already used "parents" in Luke 2:27. He by no means intends to deny the Virgin Birth of Jesus so plainly stated in Luke 1:34-38. He mer...
Luke 2:21. _And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb._ Although the old...
Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
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...
WERE AMAZED. That Simeon should know the child, and the things which he was predicting....
_Whose name was Simeon_ READINESS FOR GOD’S WILL “Some years ago,” says a lady, “I made the acquaintance of an old peasant in a little German village, where I for some time resided. He was called Go...
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...
_And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of Him._ Joseph, who is called the father of Christ, not only because he was His foster-father, and was commonly supposed to be H...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:21. THE CHILD.—The best MSS. read “Him.” Luke 2:22. HER PURIFICATION.—The true reading is, “_their_ purification” (R.V.). The mother was ceremonially unclean by child-birth, t...
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 8:18; Luke 1:65; Luke 1:66; Luke 2:48...
And Joseph. The best texts read oJ pathr aujtou, his father. Marvelled [η ν θ α υ μ α ζ ο ν τ ε ς]. The Greek construction is peculiar. His father was and his mother wondering; the finite verb in the...
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...