Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Luke 2:51
(9) And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
(9) Christ, very man, is made like us in every way except sin.
(9) And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
(9) Christ, very man, is made like us in every way except sin.
Verse Luke 2:51. _WAS SUBJECT UNTO THEM_] Behaved towards them with all dutiful submission. Probably his _working_ with his hands at his reputed father's business, is here also implied: Luke 2:41. No...
WENT DOWN WITH THEM - Down from Jerusalem, which was in a high, mountainous region. WAS SUBJECT UNTO THEM - Performed the duty of a faithful and obedient child, and not improbably was engaged in the...
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...
SUBJECT. See note on Luke 2:42....
_with them_ We may infer from the subsequent omission of Joseph's name, and from the traditional belief of his age, that he died shortly after this event, as the Apocryphal Gospels assert. _to Nazaret...
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. ...
ΜΕΤ' ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. We may infer from the subsequent omission of Joseph’s name, and from the traditional belief about his age, that he died shortly after this event, as the Apocryphal Gospels assert. ΕἸΣ ΝΑ...
THE PASSOVER VISIT TO THE TEMPLE...
VER 51. AND HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM, AND CAME TO NAZARETH, AND WAS SUBJECT TO THEM: BUT HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE SAYINGS IN HER HEART. 52. AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH...
ΚΑΤΈΒΗ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G2597) сходить, ήν _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) используется с последующим _praes. part._, перифрастически подчеркивая постоянное повиновение (Fitzmyer, 445;...
BUT HIS MOTHER— _And his mother._...
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 he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. AND HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM, AND CAME TO NAZARETH, AND WAS SUBJECT UN...
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...
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...
WAS SUBJECT] The evangelist guards against the possible supposition that Christ's words in Luke 2:49 were intended as a repudiation of His parents' authority over Him....
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...
WAS SUBJECT UNTO THEM. — There was, therefore, in the years that followed, no premature assumption of authority — nothing but the pattern of a life perfect in all its home-relationships. In such a hou...
κατέβη, He went down with them, gentle, affectionate, habitually obedient (ὑποτασσόμενος), yet tar away in thought, and solitary. διετήρει : she did not forget, though she did not understand....
_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...
Was subject to them. Astonishing humility! which the Son of God was pleased to teach by his example, as also obedience to parents. (Witham) --- The evangelist relates nothing of our Saviour from the a...
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...
3. _The residence at Nazareth: Luke 2:51-52_. From this moment Jesus possesses within Him this ideal of a life entirely devoted to the kingdom of God, which had just flashed before His eyes. For eight...
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...
(51) And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. (52) And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with...
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...
_AT NAZARETH_ ‘And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them.… And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.’ Luke 2:51 In this glorious l...
_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...
51._And he was subject to them _It was for our salvation that Christ took upon him this low estate, — that the Lord and head of angels voluntarily became _subject to _mortal creatures. Such was the pu...
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 HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM,.... From the temple, and from Jerusalem, which were on high ground: AND CAME TO NAZARETH; where he, and his parents, had lived ever since their return from Egypt: AND WAS...
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. Ver. 51. _And was subject unto them_] Labouring with his hands, &c.,Ma...
_And he went down with them to Nazareth_ That he might not seem to encourage disobedience in children, by withdrawing himself in that weak age from under the government of his parents, he very willing...
SUBJECT UNTO THEM; performed the appropriate duties of an affectionate and obedient child. THESE SAYINGS; the sayings of Jesus, as well as those of the angel and of others concerning him. Those child...
AND HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM AND CAME TO NAZARETH, AND WAS SUBJECT UNTO THEM; BUT HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE SAYINGS IN HER HEART....
The return to Nazareth:...
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...
We left him at Nazareth, after Mary's purification, LUKE 2:39; we find him at Nazareth now at twelve years old. We shall now read no more of him till LUKE 3:23, when he came to _be about thirty years...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI He who had commanded to honour our parents, was Himself subject to them.[144]...
Luke 2:51 Then G2532 down G2597 (G5627) with G3326 them G846 and G2532 came G2064 (G5627) to...
‘And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.' Responding immediately to His parents Jesus went down with them to N...
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...
Luke 2:51. WAS IN SUBJECTION UNTO THEM. Rendering full obedience, probably working at His reputed father's trade (Mark 6:2). In the light of Luke 2:49 this obedience appears as a self-humiliation. It...
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...
HE WAS SUBJECT UNTO THEM (ην υποτασσομενος αυτοις). Periphrastic imperfect passive. He continued subject unto them, this wondrous boy who really knew more than parents and rabbis, this gentle, obedi...
Luke 2:51 The Christian Family. I. The household is the parents' kingdom. Only here can each one find food for every faculty. The family gives a practical solution to the great problems of moral trut...
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...
SO JESUS WENT BACK WITH THEM. His heart drew him to the Father's house, but duty called him back to Galilee. [Luke gives this isolated event from Jesus' childhood. There would have been more, _if Luke...
_And was subject unto them--_ OBEDIENCE TO PARENTS How significant a sentence! God, whom the angels obey, is subject to Joseph and Mary I Children, behold your model, and learn from the example of J...
_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 2:51 WENT DOWN. The reverse of v. Luke 2:4. HIS MOTHER TREASURED. Compare v....
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...
1 Peter 2:21; Daniel 7:28; Ephesians 5:21; Ephesians 6:1; Ephesians 6:2
Was subject [η ν υ π ο τ α σ σ ο μ ε ν ο ς]. The participle and finite verb, denoting habitual, continuous subjection. "Even before, he had been subject to them; but this is mentioned now, when it mig...
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...