When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
They were overjoyed. Their long journey was successful. their arduous quest was ended. The most intense gladness, a fairly ecstatic delight, took possession of them, as the evangelist expresses it. At once they carried out the purpose of their journey:
THE STAR ... WENT BEFORE THEM - From this it appears that the star was a luminous meteor, perhaps at no great distance from the ground. It is not unlikely that they lost sight of it after they had com...
2. THE KING WORSHIPPED BY GENTILES; Jerusalem in Ignorance of Him; the Child Persecuted. 1. The Visit of the Wise Men.(Matthew 2:1 .) 2. The Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13 .) 3. The Return from Eg...
MATTHEW 2. THREE INCIDENTS OF CHRIST'S CHILDHOOD. Matthew 2:1. The Visit of the Magians.The religion of the Magi well deserved the double honour of stimulating the growth of the doctrine of the Futur...
AND WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR. This language shows that for some time, at least, they had not seen the star until they left Jerusalem for Bethlehem. Its reappearance caused them great rejoicing, because...
And, behold, the star, which they had seen in its rising, led them on until it came and stood over the place where the little child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy....
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
SAW THE STAR. Supply the Ellipsis from Matthew 2:9 (App-6). "having seen the star [standing over where the young child was], they rejoiced", &c. REJOICED WITH... JOY. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (A...
THE VISIT OF THE MAGI Recorded by St Matthew only....
ἘΧΆΡΗΣΑΝ ΧΑΡᾺΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The cognate noun becomes far more frequent in Hellenistic Greek under the influence of Hebrew expression. Observe the intensity of the joy expressed by the combination of cognate...
10. WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR, THEY REJOICED WITH EXCEEDING GREAT JOY. 11. AND WHEN THEY WERE COME INTO THE HOUSE, THEY SAW THE YOUNG CHILD WITH MARY HIS MOTHER, AND FELL DOWN, AND WORSHIPPED HIM: AND WH...
_THE WISE MEN VISIT THE KING MATTHEW 2:1-12_ : “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he...
ΙΔΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть. Part, может быть либо _temp._, либо причинным, ΈΧΆΡΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΧΑΊΡΩ (G5463) радоваться, быть счастливым. ΧΑΡΆ Ν (G5479) _acc....
DISCOURSE: 1280 THE JOY OF THE MAGI Matthew 2:10. _And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy_. IN so concise a history as that of our blessed Lord, the events of whose life a...
WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR— Dr. Doddridge reads a _star_ or _meteor;_ because, says he, no _star_ could point out not only a town, but a particular house. The original, in the conclusion of this verse, is...
CHAPTER 2 Section 3. THE VISIT OF THE WISE MEN TEXT: 2:1-12 1. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, Wisemen from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,...
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR, THEY REJOICED WITH EXCEEDING GREAT JOY, [ echareesan (G5463) charan (G5479) megaleen (G3173) sfodra...
1 David 1 Ozias 2 Solomon 2 Joatham 3 Roboam 3 Achaz 4 Abijah 4 Hezekiah 5 Asaph 5 Manasseh 6 Josaphat 6 Amos 7 Joram 7 Josiah [Ahaziah] [Jehoahaz] [Jehoash] [Jehoiakim] [Amaziah] [Jechon...
THE WISE MEN 1-12. The star in the east and the visit of the Magi (peculiar to St. Matthew). The incident fits well into secular history. About the time when the star appeared (7 or 6 b.c.), Herod the...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 WISE MEN VISIT JESUS 2:1-12 V1 Jesus was born in the town called Bethlehem. This was in Judea district. At this time, Herod was th...
CHAPTER 2 His Reception - Matthew 2:1 THIS one chapter contains all that St. Matthew records of the Infancy. St. Mark and St. John tell us nothing, and St. Luke very little. This singular reticence h...
Matthew 2:10, ἰδάντες δὲ … χαρὰν μεγάλην σφόδρα : seeing the star standing over the sacred spot, they were overjoyed. Their quest was at an end; they had at last reached the goal of their long journey...
_The Magi go on their errand to Bethlehem_. They do not know the way, but the star guides them. ἰδοὺ ὁ ἀστὴρ : looking up to heaven as they set out on their journey, they once more behold their heaven...
_Visit of the Magi._...
GOD RULES AND OVERRULES Matthew 2:9-15 The suggestion has been hazarded that “the star” was an unusual combination of three planets; but this would conflict with the disappearance and reappearance of...
The Kingdom was not ready for the King, so a reception for Him was not arranged and organized by those who should have been waiting for Him. They were in rebellion. The King's advent was heralded by a...
THE ORIENTAL MAGI Matthew 2:1-12. _“Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, the magi came from the East, saying, Where is He who was born King of the Jews?...
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. It appears that Herod had so disguised his intentions, that the wise men had no consciousness of it. So is it in common life. But the Lo...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_STARS AS TYPES_ ‘When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.’ Matthew 2:10 A great many theories have been advanced to account for the appearance of the star, but what God tell...
Thus born, thus characterised by the angel and fulfilling the prophecies that announced the presence of Emmanuel, He is formally acknowledged King of the Jews by the Gentiles, who are guided by the wi...
WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR,.... Which by its appearance, size, brightness, c. they knew to be the same with that which they had seen, when in their own country THEY REJOICED WITH EXCEEDING GREAT JOY; a ...
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. Ver. 10. _When they saw the star_] The sight whereof they seem to have lost when they turned out of the way; it led them to Jerusalem....
Mat. 2:10. "_ When they saw the star,_ they rejoiced with exceeding great joy." The wise men that sought Christ traveled through a vast howling wilderness, full of pits and drought and serpents, hideo...
_When they saw the star_ Thus standing over where the child was, _they rejoiced with exceeding great joy_ The original expression, εχαρησαν χαραν μεγαλην σφοδρα, is remarkably emphatical, and might be...
The deeply interesting account of Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she would be the mother of her Lord, the details as to His birth in Bethlehem, the visit of the shepherds to the manger in which H...
9-12 What joy these wise men felt upon this sight of the star, none know so well as those who, after a long and melancholy night of temptation and desertion, under the power of a spirit of bondage, a...
Joy is but the natural consequence of desire satisfied: they had in their own country seen an extraordinary star, which, according to the rules of their own art, they might guess to be an indication o...
Matthew 2:10 When G1161 saw G1492 (G5631) star G792 rejoiced G5463 (G5644) exceedingly G4970 great G3173 joy...
‘And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.' The sight of the star filled them with great joy. It vindicated the activities of the past few months, justified their journey, an...
THE VISIT OF THE MAGI (2:1-11). The visit of the Magi/Eminent Astrologers to Jesus is important for a number of reasons. It emphasises: 1). That whereas the leading Jews in the main ignored His birt...
THE DATE OF OUR LORD'S BIRTH. See Introduction, § 8, pp. 16, 17. The visit of the Magi, while it does not determine the year of the birth of Christ, fixes a date _before_ which it must have taken plac...
Matthew 2:10. WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR. This shows that for some time, at least, they had not seen it. THEY REJOICED WITH EXCEEDING GREAT JOY. Literally, ‘rejoiced a great joy exceedingly.' The reappea...
THEY REJOICED WITH EXCEEDING GREAT JOY (εχαρησαν χαραν μεγαλην σφοδρα). Second aorist passive indicative with cognate accusative. Their joy was due to the success of the search....
Matthew 2:1. _Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,_ Probably from that Assyria which is joined with Is...
Matthew 2:1. _Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? f...
Matthew 2:1. _Now when Jesus was born is Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,_ Our Lord was born in Bethlehem, an inconsiderable...
CONTENTS: Visit of the Magi, flight into Egypt, Herod's slaughter of the innocents. Return of Joseph and Mary to Nazareth. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Herod, chief priests, scribes, wise me...
Matthew 2:1. _Jesus was born in Bethlehem,_ as is illustrated in Micah 5:2. _In the days of Herod the king,_ the son of Antipater, and father of Archelaus, who succeeded him on the throne. Herod, who...
WHEN THEY SAW THE STAR. Implying that for a time, at least, they had not seen the star until leaving Jerusalem for Bethlehem. Its appearance shows their search is not futile....
CHAPTER 2 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Juda in the days of king Herod. It is better to read here in the Greek _in Bethlehem-Juda_. Juda means the tribe of Judah, to which, after the schism...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 2:11. HOUSE.—It is not reasonable to suppose that the holy family would require to stay long in the public khan or caravanserai, where the infant Saviour was born. WORSHIPPED....
EXPOSITION JESUS THE CHRIST BY HIS EARLY HISTORY answering to the word of God by the prophets. This is shown by four particulars, for each of which a corresponding prophecy is adduced. (1) The place...
Chapter Two Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king (Matthew 2:1), This is Herod the Great, that little short monster. He was a little over four feet tall, and as...
Acts 13:46; Deuteronomy 32:13; Luke 2:10; Luke 2:20; Psalms 105:3;...
HOW THE FIRST CHRISTMAS WAS CELEBRATED Matthew 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction we are going to read a poem named "The Christmas Story" which was written several years ago. It is appro...
Seeing the star — Standing over where the child was....