Jesus increased in wisdom — As to his human nature, and in favour with God — In proportion to that increase. It plainly follows, that though a man were pure, even as Christ was pure, still he would have room to increase in holiness, and in consequence thereof to increase in the favour, as well as in the love of God.
Verse Luke 2:52. _JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM_] Luke 2:40. THE following remarks, taken chiefly from Mr. _Claude_, on the foregoing subject, are well worth the reader's attention. I. The birth of Chri...
IN FAVOUR WITH GOD - That is, in proportion to his advance in wisdom. This does not imply that he ever lacked the favor of God, but that God regarded him with favor in proportion as he showed an under...
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...
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...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
INCREASED. advanced, in wisdom. See App-117. STATURE. maturity in all respects. WITH. from beside. Greek. _para._ App-104. MAN. men. Greek. _anthropos._ App-123....
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. ...
_increased_ Rather, ADVANCED. The word is derived from pioneers _cutting down_trees in the path of an advancing army. Comp. 1 Samuel 2:26, and the description of an ideal youth in Proverbs 3:3-4. _sta...
ΠΡΟΈΚΟΠΤΕΝ, ‘advanced.’ (Galatians 1:14; 2 Timothy 2:16, &c.) The word is derived from pioneers _cutting down_ trees in the path of an advancing army. Comp. 1 Samuel 2:26, and the description of an id...
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...
ΠΡΟΈΚΟΠΤΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΚΌΠΤΩ (G4298) достигать, ΗΛΙΚΊΑ (G2244) _dat. sing._ рост, высота, возможно, возраст (Fitzmyer, 446; MM). _Dat._ relat.; указывает, на что распространялся рост....
AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE— The word signifies either _age_ or _stature;_ but the latter seems evidently to be here meant. Erasmus remarks, (nearlyin these words) that all the endowment...
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...
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...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE. So our translators have rendered the word [ heelikia (G2244)], with Beza, Groti...
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...
See on Luke 2:40....
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...
JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE. — Here again we have nothing but a normal orderly development. With Him, as with others, wisdom widened with the years, and came into His human soul through the...
προέκοπτε, steadily grew, used intransitively in later Greek. ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ και ἡλικίᾳ, in wisdom and (also _as_, the one the measure of the other) in stature, both growths alike real. Real in body, app...
_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...
Not that he was wiser at any future period of his life, that he was at the moment of his conception, but this is said, because he chose to manifest increasing signs of wisdom as he increased in years....
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...
REFLECTIONS Reader! how little did the Roman Emperor Augustus, or his deputy Cyrenius, conceive, that the over-ruling power of God so arranged the taxation, that the chief object to which it should mi...
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...
_INCREASING IN WISDOM_ ‘Jesus increased in wisdom.’ Luke 2:52 The Gospels do not give us, nor do they attempt to give us, a detailed history of our Lord’s wondrous life. A few stories of the infanc...
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 JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM,.... As man; for neither his divine wisdom, nor the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in him, as mediator, could admit of any increase; but as he grew in body, the facult...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. Ver. 52. _Increased in wisdom_] Being παιδαριογερων, as Macarius was called, while a child, for his extraordinary grace and...
_And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature_ In the perfections of his divine nature there could be no increase; but this is spoken of his human nature, consisting of a reasonable soul and human flesh;...
INCREASED IN WISDOM; this is spoken of Jesus as man. See Matthew 24:36; MARK 13:32....
The return to Nazareth:...
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 pare...
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 ...
STATURE: Or, age...
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...
If any ask how he, who was the eternal Wisdom of the Father, (who is the only wise God), increased in wisdom, they must know that all things in Scripture which are spoken of Christ, are not spoken wit...
Tertullian On Modesty I blush not at an error which I have ceased to hold, because I am delighted at having ceased to hold it, because I recognise myself to be better and more modest. No one blushes...
Luke 2:52 And G2532 Jesus G2424 increased G4298 (G5707) wisdom G4678 and G2532 stature G2244 and G2532 favor...
‘And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men.' Meanwhile Jesus continued to grow in wisdom and in physical strength, and in favour with God and men. He did not at this sta...
Luke 2:52. ADVANCED, not ‘increased.' IN WISDOM AND STATURE, or, ‘age;' see Matthew 6:27. The former sense is included, if the latter be accepted. IN FAVOR (or, ‘grace') WITH GOD AND MEN. The favor...
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...
ADVANCED IN WISDOM AND STATURE (προεκοπτεν τη σοφια κα ηλικια). Imperfect active, he kept cutting his way forward as through a forest or jungle as pioneers did. He kept growing in stature (ηλικια ma...
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...
Luke 2:40 , LUKE 2:49; LUKE 2:52 (with Mark 6:3; John 4:34;...
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...
AND JESUS GREW. Jesus grew up in a remote province of the Roman Empire, a province conquered by occupation troops, in a little country village whose name was a "proverb" for futility, in poverty and m...
_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...
_And Jesus increased in wisdom--_ A PATTERN CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 1. He grew, not in stature only, but in wisdom and favour with God and man. Christ, as Divine, must have had all knowledge and power...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:52 JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM. See Luke 1:80; Luke 2:40. His true humanity is seen in hi
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
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 Samuel 2:26; Acts 7:10; Acts 7:9; Luke 1:80; Luke 2:40;...
Stature [η λ ι κ ι α]. Which Rev. rightly retains. The word may be rendered age, which would be superfluous here. :Luke 3 CHAPTER III 1 - 18. Compare Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8....
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...