Luke 2:1,2
THE BIRTH OF JESUS AND THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. The reason for the journey to Bethlehem:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BIRTH OF JESUS AND THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. The reason for the journey to Bethlehem:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED.... [ Continue Reading ]
(AND THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE WHEN CYRENIUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA.) The Enrolment Of Quirinius Many and various are the objections which have been made to Luke's approximate date of the birth of Christ. He is supposed to have confused the census of 8 B. C. with that of 6-7 A. D., and imagined tha... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL WENT TO "BE TAXED, EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN CITY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE, OUT OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH, INTO JUDEA, UNTO THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)... [ Continue Reading ]
TO BE TAXED WITH MARY, HIS ESPOUSED WIFE, BEING GREAT WITH CHILD. All the statements of the evangelist are made with such obvious care and accuracy that there is no reason to doubt his record, aside from the fact that the inspiration makes the text correct. It happened, came about, in those days, th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SO IT WAS THAT, WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED THAT SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED.... [ Continue Reading ]
The birth of the Savior:... [ Continue Reading ]
And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Himin swaddling-clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. The infinite simplicity of Luke's account of the great miracle of the. incarnation is worthy of special notice, since it serves to sustain the fact o... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS ABIDING IN THE FIELD, KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The message to the shepherds:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, LO, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME UPON THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE ROUND ABOUT THEM; AND THEY WERE SORE AFRAID.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO THEM, FEAR NOT; FOR, BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY, WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO YOU: YE SHALL FIND THE BABE WRAPPED IN SWADDLING-CLOTHES, LYING IN A MANGER. In that same country, in the neighborhood of the town of Bethlehem, there were shepherds. They were out in the fields, whether under the open sky or in booths, is immaterial. They may have cons... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD, AND SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
The angels' hymn of praise:... [ Continue Reading ]
GLORY TO GOD. IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN. The message of the first angel had culminated in a song of praise and exultation. But his hymn was a mere preamble to the chorus that was sung there on the fields of Bethlehem and has since rolled out in a triumphant wave of mel... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THE ANGELS WERE GONE AWAY FROM THEM INTO HEAVEN, THE SHEPHERDS SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, LET US NOW GO EVEN UNTO BETHLEHEM, AND SEE THIS THING WHICH IS COME TO PASS, WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE KNOWN UNTO US.... [ Continue Reading ]
The visit and adoration of the shepherds:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CAME WITH HASTE, AND FOUND MARY, AND JOSEPH, AND THE BABE LYING IN A MANGER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD SEEN IT, THEY MADE KNOWN ABROAD THE SAYING WHICH "WAS TOLD THEM CONCERNING THIS CHILD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THEY THAT HEARD IT WONDERED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE TOLD THEM BY THE SHEPHERDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS, AND PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SHEPHERDS RETURNED, GLORIFYING AND PRAISING GOD FOR ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY HAD HEARD AND SEEN, AS IT WAS TOLD UNTO THEM. LUKE'S SONG OF THE NATIVITY IS NOT YET ENDED; HE HAS A STORY OF SOME CHRISTMAS CHRISTIANS TO TELL, AND ITS EFFECT IS ENHANCED BY ITS GREAT SIMPLICITY. Hardly had the ang... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN EIGHT DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE CIRCUMCISION OF THE CHILD, HIS NAME WAS CALLED JESUS, WHICH WAS SO NAMED OF THE ANGEL BEFORE HE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE WOMB. By His ancestry and birth, Jesus was a member of the Jewish race and of the Jewish Church. And Mary and Joseph observed all the rit... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CIRCUMCISION AND PRESENTATION OF CHRIST. Luke 2:21 The circumcision:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES WERE ACCOMPLISHED, THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM TO PRESENT HIM TO THE LORD,... [ Continue Reading ]
(AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF THE LORD, EVERY MALE THAT OPENETH THE WOMB SHALL BE CALLED HOLY TO THE LORD,)... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO OFFER A SACRIFICE ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH IS SAID IN THE LAW OF THE LORD, A PAIR OF TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG PIGEONS. Luke finds it necessary to explain the rites connected with the purification for the sake of his readers that were not familiar with Jewish laws. The mother was unclean, accor... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A MAN IN JERUSALEM WHOSE NAME WAS SIMEON; AND THE SAME MAN WAS JUST AND DEVOUT, WAITING FOR THE CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL; AND THE HOLY GHOST WAS UPON HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The coming of Simeon:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT WAS REVEALED UNTO HIM BY THE HOLY GHOST THAT HE SHOULD NOT SEE DEATH BEFORE HE HAD SEEN THE. LORD'S CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CAME BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE TEMPLE; AND WHEN THE PARENTS BROUGHT IN THE CHILD JESUS TO DO FOR HIM AFTER THE CUSTOM OF THE LAW,... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN TOOK HE HIM UP IN HIS ARMS, AND BLESSED GOD, AND SAID,... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD, NOW LETTEST THOU THY SERVANT DEPART IN PEACE ACCORDING TO THY WORD;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THY SALVATION,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH THOU HAST PREPARED BEFORE THE FACE OF ALL PEOPLE,... [ Continue Reading ]
A LIGHT TO LIGHTEN THE GENTILES AND THE GLORY OF THY PEOPLE ISRAEL. The incident here told by Luke is so important that he introduces it with "Behold!" It brought a further testimony for the Christ child and strengthened Mary in her faith. A man by the name of Simeon was in Jerusalem at that time. N... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER MARVELED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN OF HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Simeon blesses Joseph and Mary:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SIMEON BLESSED THEM, AND SAID UNTO MARY, HIS MOTHER, BEHOLD, THIS CHILD IS SET FOR THE FALL AND RISING AGAIN OF MANY IN ISRAEL; AND FOR A SIGN WHICH SHALL BE SPOKEN AGAINST,... [ Continue Reading ]
(YEA, A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THY OWN SOUL ALSO,) THAT THE THOUGHTS OF MANY HEARTS MAY BE REVEALED. Whereas in the story of the shepherds only Mary is mentioned as having taken careful note of the words concerning her Son, both parents are here represented as marveling over the words of Simeon,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WAS ONE ANNA, A PROPHETESS, THE DAUGHTER OF PHANUEL, OF THE TRIBE OF ASER; SHE WAS OF GREAT AGE, AND HAD LIVED WITH AN HUSBAND SEVEN YEARS FROM HER VIRGINITY;... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophetess Anna:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHE WAS A WIDOW OF ABOUT FOURSCORE AND FOUR YEARS, WHICH DEPARTED NOT FROM THE TEMPLE, BUT SERVED GOD WITH FASTINGS AND PRAYERS NIGHT AND DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHE, COMING IN THAT INSTANT, GAVE THANKS LIKEWISE UNTO THE LORD, AND SPAKE OF HIM TO ALL THEM THAT LOOKED FOR REDEMPTION IN JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD PERFORMED ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE LORD, THEY RETURNED INTO GALILEE, TO THEIR, OWN CITY NAZARETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CHILD GREW, AND WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT, FILLED WITH WISDOM; AND THE GRACE OF GOD WAS UPON HIM. Simeon was not the only faithful soul in Jerusalem at that time. A prophetess, Anna, whose father and tribe are named, with Luke's attention to detail wherever it is available, joined the group. Sh... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW HIS PARENTS WENT TO JERUSALEM EVERY YEAR AT THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHRIST-CHILD IN THE TEMPLE. Luke 2:41 The trip to Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD, THEY WENT UP TO JERUSALEM AFTER THE CUSTOM OF THE FEAST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD FULFILLED THE DAYS, AS THEY RETURNED, THE CHILD JESUS TARRIED BEHIND IN JERUSALEM; AND JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER KNEW NOT OF IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY, SUPPOSING HIM TO HAVE BEEN IN THE COMPANY, WENT A DAY'S JOURNEY; AND THEY SOUGHT HIM AMONG THEIR KINSFOLK AND ACQUAINTANCE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY FOUND HIM NOT, THEY TURNED BACK AGAIN TO JERUSALEM, SEEKING HIM. We have here the one authentic story from the life of Christ in the interval between the flight into Egypt and the beginning of His ministry. In this narrative He is standing on the threshold between childhood and youth,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT AFTER THREE DAYS THEY FOUND HIM IN THE TEMPLE, SITTING IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS, BOTH HEARING THEM AND ASKING THEM QUESTIONS.... [ Continue Reading ]
His Father's business:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THAT HEARD HIM WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS UNDERSTANDING AND ANSWERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, HOW IS IT THAT YE SOUGHT ME? WIST YE NOT THAT I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT THE SAYING WHICH HE SPAKE UNTO THEM. The three days' search with its attendant anxiety may well have aroused the thought in Mary's heart that the prophecy of Simeon was even now being fulfilled. But at last Mary and Joseph found Jesus, after assiduously searching over the who... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The return to Nazareth:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH GOD AND MAN. A period of approximately eighteen years is covered in this simple statement of the evangelist. Although He had given His parents evidence of a greater and higher calling, He yet went with them as an obedient son. He was subje... [ Continue Reading ]