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Verse 48. _WHY HAST THOU THUS DEALT WITH US?_] It certainly was not
_his_ fault, but _theirs_. Men are very apt to lay on _others_ the
blame of their _own_ misconduct....
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WHY HAST THOU THUS DEALT WITH US? - Why hast thou given us all this
trouble and anxiety, in going so far and returning with so much
solicitude?
THY FATHER - Joseph was not the “real” father of Jesus,...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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SON. Greek. _teknon_. child. See App-108.
THY FATHER. This was legally correct on the part of Mary. (See note on
Luke 2:42, above.) But not truly so; therefore the Lord's correction,
"MY Father's bus...
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_they were amazed_ The "_people of the land_," such as were the simple
peasants of Galilee, held their great teachers in the deepest awe, and
hitherto the silent, sweet, obedient childhood of Jesus ha...
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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. ...
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ἘΞΕΠΛΆΓΗΣΑΝ. The “_people of the land_,” such as were
the simple peasants of Galilee, held their great teachers in the
deepest awe, and hitherto the silent, sweet, obedient childhood of
Jesus had not...
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THE PASSOVER VISIT TO THE TEMPLE...
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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...
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ΊΔΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ Luke 2:15.
ΈΞΕΠΛΆΓΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΈΚΠΛΉΣΣΩ (G1605)
выбивать, потрясать ударом; _pass._ быть
пораженным, быть вне себя от
удивления,
ΈΠΟΊΗΣΑΣ _aor. ind...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto
him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I
have sought thee sorrowing.
AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM, THEY WERE...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(48)BEHOLD, THY FATHER AND I HAVE SOUGHT. — The latter clause
expresses a continuous act, _We were seeking thee;_ and our Lord uses
the same tense in His answer....
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ἰδόντες refers to the parents. This astonishment points to
some contrast between a previous quiet, reserved manner of Jesus and
His present bearing; sudden flashing out of the inner life. ἡ
μήτηρ : th...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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_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...
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48._And his mother said to him _Those who think that the holy virgin
spake in this manner, for the purpose of showing her authority, are,
in my opinion, mistaken. It is even possible, that it was not...
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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...
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AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM THEY WERE AMAZED,.... That is, when Joseph and
Mary saw him amidst the doctors, they were astonished that he was
admitted among them, and had in such esteem by them:
AND HIS MOT...
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And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him,
Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have
sought thee sorrowing.
Ver. 48. _Have sought thee sorrowing...
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_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...
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AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM, THEY WERE AMAZED. AND HIS MOTHER SAID UNTO HIM,
SON, WHY HAST THOU THUS DEALT WITH US? BEHOLD, THY FATHER AND I HAVE
SOUGHT THEE SORROWING....
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His Father's business:...
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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 ...
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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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Though something must be allowed to a woman's passions and a mother's
indulgence, yet one would think that, especially considering where
they found him, and what doing, she should not have spoken thus...
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Luke 2:48 So G2532 saw G1492 (G5631) Him G846 amazed G1605 (G5648) and
G2532 His G846 mother...
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‘And when they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to
him, “Son, why have you thus dealt with us? Behold, your father and
I sought you sorrowing.” '
Once again His parents were astonish...
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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...
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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...
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Luke 2:48. THEY (_i.e._, His parents) WERE ASTONISHED. Comp. Luke
2:50.
HIS MOTHER SAID UNTO HIM. This indicates that there was a special
reason for _her_ speaking rather than Joseph. But the answer...
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THEY WERE ASTONISHED
(εξεπλαγησαν). Second aorist passive indicative of an old
Greek word (εκπλησσω), to strike out, drive out by a blow.
Joseph and Mary "were struck out" by what they saw and hear...
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Luke 2:48
The Finding of Christ in the Temple.
I. One of the things which it would have been absolutely impossible
for the intellect of a human infant to grasp would be the idea of
Divine Sonship, th...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Son, why hast Thou thus dealt with us?_
PERPLEXITY IN PRESENCE OF MYSTERY
This question of the mother of Jesus reveals an experience of the
human heart which is very common, which is most common in...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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.;...
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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...
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They were amazed [ε ξ ε π λ α γ η σ α ν]. A very strong
word; the verb meaning, literally, to strike out or drive away from;
and so to drive out of one's senses. Hence in the general sense of
great am...
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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...
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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...
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Without doubt it was impossible to express the sorrow of the Holy
Virgin's soul, when all the search of three days could bring them no
tidings of their holy child. How did she blame her eyes for once...