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Verse 47. _ANSWERS:_] The word αποκρισις here seems not to
mean _answers_ only, but what Jesus said by way of question to the
doctors, Luke 2:46. So in Revelation 7:13, one of the elders is said
to ha...
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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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JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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 gove...
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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...
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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...
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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 Hi...
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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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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...
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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 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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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Luke 2:47 And G1161 all G3956 heard G191 (G5723) Him G846 astonished
G1839 (G5710) at G1909 His G846 understanding G4907 and G2532 answers
G612
Luke 4:22, Luke 4:32; Psalms 119:99;...
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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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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...
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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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_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 to the temple at age 12 (vv. Luke 2:41).
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images =...
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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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_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...
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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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John 7:15; John 7:46; Luke 4:22; Luke 4:32; Mark 1:22; Matthew 7:28;
Psalms 119:99...
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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;...
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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 gi...