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Verse Luke 2:49. _HOW IS IT THAT YE SOUGHT ME?_] Is not this intended
as a gentle _reproof_? Why had ye me to _seek_? Ye should not have
left my company, when ye knew I am constantly employed in perfo...
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HOW IS IT ... - “Why” have ye sought me with so much anxiety?
“Mary” should have known that the Son of God was safe; that his
heavenly Father would take care of him, and that he could do nothing
amiss...
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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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WIST YE NOT. knew ye not. Greek. _oida._ See App-132.
MUST. These are the first recorded words of the Lord. The reference is
to Psalms 40:5; John 4:34. Hence the Divine necessity. Compare Matthew
16:2...
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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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ΈΖΗΤΕΪ́ΤΕ _impf. ind. act., см._ Luke 2:48. Ή ΔΕΊΤΕ
_plperf. ind. act._ def. perf. от ΟΊΔΑ (G1492) знать. Ind.
используется с ΟΎΚ (G3756) в вопросе, на
который ожидается утвердительный
ответ,
ΔΕΙ (G...
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DISCOURSE: 1479
CHRIST’S EARLY HABITS
Luke 2:49. _And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me. wist
ye not that I mutt be about my Father’s business?_
THE prophets and apostles of old are prop...
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WIST YE NOT, &C.— Some render this, _Know ye not that I must be in
my Father's house?_ With this translation the Syriac version agrees:
and it is certain that the Greek will well bear this translation...
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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 he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that
I must be about my Father's business?
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, HOW IS IT THAT YE SOUGHT ME? WIST (KNEW) YE
NOT THAT I MUST BE ABOU...
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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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2:49 business? (e-27) Lit. 'To be in the things of my Father.'
Elsewhere in New Testament the expression ('to be in the things') only
occurs in 1 Timothy 4:15 ....
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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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WIST YE NOT...? — This is, as it were, the holy Child’s defence
against the implied reproach in. His mother’s question. Had they
reflected, there need have been no seeking; they would have known what...
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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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_I must be about the things that are my Father's? By these words he
shewed, that not St. Joseph, but only God, was his father. (Witham)_...
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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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49._Did ye not know? _Our Lord justly blames his mother, though he
does it in a gentle and indirect manner. The amount of what he says
is, that the duty which he owes to God his Father, ought to be
im...
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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 HE SAID UNTO THEM, HOW IS IT THAT YE SOUGHT ME?.... That is, with
so much uneasiness and distress of mind, not trusting in the power and
providence of God, to take care of him; and in other places...
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And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I
must be about my Father's business?
Ver. 49. _Wist ye not_] Men, be they pleased or displeased, God must
be obeyed....
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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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WIST; knew.
ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS; or, among my Father's matters; which was,
in this case, studying his Father's law in his Father's house. Parents
who regularaly and conscientiously take their...
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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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Ver. 49,50. Some read it _that I must be in my Father's house?_ Then
the sense must be, why did you seek me in any other place than the
temple, that is, my Father's house, there lieth my business. But...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I
Some passages, also, which occur in the Gospels, receive from them a
colouring of the same kind, such as the answer which He gave His
mother when He was twelve years...
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Luke 2:49 And G2532 said G2036 (G5627) to G4314 them G846 Why G5101
G3754 seek G2212 (G5707) Me G3165 not G3756 know G1492 (G5715) that
G3754 I G3165 must G1163 (G5748) be G1511 (G5750) about...
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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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SON
(τεκνον). Child, literally. It was natural for Mary to be the
first to speak.WHY
(Τ). The mother's reproach of the boy is followed by a confession of
negligence on her part and of Joseph ( SO...
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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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WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR ME? _Didn't you know that I had to be in
my Father's house?_ They should have come straight to the temple,
These words first reveal his consciousness of his "supernormal...
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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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A GREAT AWAKENING
Wist ye not that I must be in my Father's house? Luke 2:49.
Many of you boys and girls have sat in the gallery of the church on a
Communion Sabbath. You thought there was somethin...
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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 2:16; John 2:17; John 4:34; John 5:17; John 6:38; John 8:29; John
9:4; Luke 2:48; Malachi 3:1; Matthew 21:12; Psal
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And he said. The first saying of Jesus which is preserved to us. Must
[δ ε ι]. Lit., it is necessary, or it behoves. A word often used by
Jesus concerning his own appointed work, and expressing both t...
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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...
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Why sought ye me? — He does not blame them for losing, but for
thinking it needful to seek him: and intimates, that he could not be
lost, nor found any where, but doing the will of a higher parent....
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Observe here, that Christ blames not his parents for their solicitous
care of him, but shows them how able he was to live without any
dependency upon them and their care; and also to let them understa...