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 _e...
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...
SEEKING. searching (all the way they went). Greek. _anaz_ as in Luke 2:44....
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. ...
ΜῊ ΕὙΡΌΝΤΕΣ. The μὴ is causal. ‘_Since_ they did not find Him,’ they returned. ἈΝΑΖΗΤΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΌΝ, ‘diligently searching for Him.’...
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...
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 when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. AND WHEN THEY FOUND HIM NOT, THEY TURNED BACK AGAIN TO JERUSALEM, SEEKING HIM....
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...
ἀναζητοῦντες : the present participle, expressing the purpose of the journey back to Jerusalem, where (not on the road) the search took place (_cf._ Acts 11:25). The ἀνά here (as in ἀνεζήτουν, Luke 2:...
_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...
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...
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...
(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...
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 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,...
And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. Ver. 45. _And when they found him not_] The best are sometimes at a loss, and hard put to it for three days, or so. And...
_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...
AND WHEN THEY FOUND HIM NOT, THEY TURNED BACK AGAIN TO JERUSALEM, SEEKING HIM. We have here the one authentic story from the life of Christ in the interval between the flight into Egypt and the beginn...
THE CHRIST-CHILD IN THE TEMPLE. Luke 2:41 The trip to Jerusalem:...
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 2:45 So G2532 not G3361 find G2147 (G5631) Him G846 returned G5290 (G5656) to G1519 Jerusalem...
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...
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...
SEEKING FOR HIM (αναζητουντες αυτον). Present participle of the same verb. This was all that was worth while now, finding the lost boy....
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...
_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 2:1 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 when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking Him._ Jesus having been seen by none of His kinsfolk on the way, His parents understood that He must have remained in Jerusal...
_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...
Seeking him [α ν α ζ η τ ο υ ν τ ε ς]. All the way as they went. Force of ajna, as above....
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...