-
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...
-
_were astonished_ Similar incidents are narrated of Rabbi Eliezer Ben
Azariah; of Rabbi Ashi, the compiler of the Babylonian Talmud; and (by
himself) of Josephus (_Vit_. 2). See Excursus VII....
-
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. ...
-
ἘΞΊΣΤΑΝΤΟ. Similar instances are narrated of Rabbi Eliezer
Ben Azariah; of Rabbi Ashi, the compiler of the Babylonian Talmud; and
(by himself) of Josephus (_Vit._ 2). See Excursus VII....
-
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...
-
ΈΞΊΣΤΑΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΞΊΣΤΗΜΙ
(G1839) быть удивленным, пораженным. _Impf._
изображает длительное действие в
прошлом. Иисус выступает в роли
Ученика, Который поражает Своих
учителей по...
-
AND ALL THAT HEARD HIM WERE ASTONISHED— The words rendered
_astonished_ in this verse, and _amazed_ in the next, are much more
forcible than our translation of them. They import, that _they were in
a...
-
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 all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and
answers.
AND ALL THAT HEARD HIM WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS UNDERSTANDING AND
ANSWERS. This confirms what we have said above, that while...
-
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...
-
AT HIS UNDERSTANDING AND ANSWERS. — The first word seems to point to
the discernment which showed itself in the questions as well as the
answers. The egotism of Josephus leads him to speak of himself...
-
_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...
-
ἐξίσταντο, were amazed, not at His position among the
_doctors_, or at His asking questions, but at the intelligence
(συνέσει) shown in His answers to the questions of the
teachers; something of the r...
-
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...
-
_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...
-
_THE BOYHOOD OF CHRIST_
‘They found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors,
both hearing them and askimg them questions.’
Luke 2:46
Though but one incident in the early life of Jesu...
-
47._And all who heard him _Two things here claim our attention. _All
who heard him were astonished: _for they reckoned it a miracle, that a
child should frame his questions with such correctness and p...
-
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 ALL THAT HEARD HIM WERE ASTONISHED,.... All in the sanhedrim, both
the doctors, and their disciples, were amazed,
AT HIS UNDERSTANDING; in the knowledge of the law, and of the
Scriptures:
AND HI...
-
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and
answers.
Ver. 47. _At his understanding_] Which was so large, even as man, that
some have affirmed it to be infinite, and uncreated; bu...
-
_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 ALL THAT HEARD HIM WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS UNDERSTANDING AND
ANSWERS....
-
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...
-
What was the subject matter of the doctors and Christ's discourses is
vainly questioned, only in the general we may be assured it was
something about the Divine law; what the particular themes or subj...
-
Luke 2:47 And G1161 all G3956 heard G191 (G5723) Him G846 astonished
G1839 (G5710) at G1909 His...
-
‘And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his
answers.'
The Rabbis would each sit with a group of disciples round them. They
would themselves ask questions of their listeners, and th...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Luke 2:47. WERE AMAZED AT HIS UNDERSTANDING; as manifested in His
comprehension of the subjects (undoubtedly religious) under
discussion.
HIS ANSWERS. This is added as the special ground of amazement...
-
WERE AMAZED
(εξισταντο). Imperfect indicative middle, descriptive of
their continued and repeated astonishment. Common verb εξιστημ
meaning that they stood out of themselves as if their eyes were
b...
-
Luke 2:46
The story of our Lord's listening to the doctors in the Temple and
questioning them shows how He compelled a set of men, who were the
slaves of words or rather of letters, who believed that...
-
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...
-
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
-
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:46 AFTER THREE DAYS (a day’s journey from
Jerusalem, a day returning, and a day of searching for Jesus) his
parents found Jesus IN THE TEMPLE. On the temple, see note on...
-
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...
-
John 7:15; John 7:46; Luke 4:22; Luke 4:32; Mark 1:22;...
-
Understanding [σ υ ν ε σ ε ι]. From sunihmi, to bring together.
Hence that quality of mind which combines : understanding not only of
facts, but of facts in their mutual relations. See on Mark 12:33;...
-
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...