NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Luke 2:46
The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour
And His mother kept all these words of His in her heart. And the Lord Jesus advanced in stature, and in wisdom, and in favour with God and man.[24]
The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour
And His mother kept all these words of His in her heart. And the Lord Jesus advanced in stature, and in wisdom, and in favour with God and man.[24]
Verse 46. _SITTING IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS_] The rabbins, who were explaining the law and the ceremonies of the Jewish religion to their disciples. _ASKING THEM QUESTIONS._] Not as a _scholar_ as...
AFTER THREE DAYS - This means, probably, “on the third day” after they had left Jerusalem - that is, the first day they went toward Galilee, on the second they returned to Jerusalem, and on the third...
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...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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...
AFTER. with. Greek. _meta._ App-104. SITTING. This was strictly according to rule. DOCTORS. teachers: i.e. Rabbis....
_after three days_ This, in the Jewish idiom, probably means -on the third day." One day was occupied by the journey to Beeroth; on the second, they sought him in the caravans and at Jerusalem; the ne...
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. ...
ΜΕΤᾺ ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ΤΡΕΙ͂Σ. This, in the Jewish idiom, probably means ‘on the third day.’ One day was occupied by the journey to Beeroth; on the second, they sought Him in the caravans and at Jerusalem; the n...
THE PASSOVER VISIT TO THE TEMPLE...
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...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) случаться, происходить, ΕΎΡΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 2:12. ΚΑΘΕΖΌΜΕΝΟΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΚΑΘΈΖΟΜΑΙ (G2516) сидеть, ΕΠΕΡΩΤΏΝΤΑ _pra...
THEY FOUND HIM IN THE TEMPLE— On the morrow after their arrival, the parents of Jesus, to their great joy, found him in one of the chambers of the temple, _sitting among the doctors,_ who at certain s...
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 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. AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT AFTER THREE DAY...
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...
2:46 temple, (b-14) _ Hieron_ , as ch. 2.27....
AFTER THREE DAYS] They spent one day looking for Him in the caravan, one day in the return journey to Jerusalem, and found Him on the third day. DOCTORS] i.e. scribes or rabbis. Among the famous men w...
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...
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...
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...
SITTING IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS. — A chamber of the Temple was set apart as a kind of open free school. The “doctors” or teachers — famous “doctors of the Law” (Acts 5:34) — sat “in Moses’ seat;”...
ἡμέρας τρεῖς, three days, measured from the time they had last seen Him, not implying three days' search in Jerusalem. The place where they had lodged and the temple would be among the first places vi...
_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...
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...
2. _The meeting: Luke 2:46-50_. As it is improbable that they had sought for Jesus for two or three days without going to the temple, the three days must certainly date from the time of separation. T...
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...
(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...
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...
_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...
_CHRIST LOST AND FOUND_ ‘And it came to pass, that after three days they found Him in the temple.’ Luke 2:46 The guardians of the Child were devout Jews. Is it not somewhat significant that we see...
_THE BOYHOOD OF CHRIST_ ‘They found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and askimg them questions.’ Luke 2:46 Though but one incident in the early life of Jesu...
46._Sitting in the midst of the doctors _Rays of divine brightness must have evidently shone in this child: otherwise those haughty men would not have permitted him to sit along with them. Though it i...
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 IT CAME TO PASS, THAT AFTER THREE DAYS,.... From their first setting out from Jerusalem, when Jesus tarried behind; or on the third day, which may be reckoned thus; the first day was spent in jour...
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. Ver. 46. _Sitting in the midst of the docto...
_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...
His Father's business:...
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....
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 ...
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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Luke 2:46 Now G2532 was G1096 (G5633) after G3326 three G5140 days G2250 found G2147 (G5627) Him...
‘And it came about, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions.' It would take the parents all night, and even s...
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...
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...
Luke 2:46. AFTER THREE DAYS. Reckoned from the time when they missed Him: one day returning (possibly part of another, as they searched on the way), another of search in Jerusalem, the third day that...
AFTER THREE DAYS (μετα ημερας τρεις). One day out, one day back, and on the third day finding him.IN THE TEMPLE (εν τω ιερω). Probably on the terrace where members of the Sanhedrin gave public in...
Luke 2:46 The story of our Lord's listening to the doctors in the Temple and questioning them shows how He compelled a set of men, who were the slaves of words or rather of letters, who believed that...
Luke 2:46 I. Christ has a house here below as well as in heaven above. Here is the light of His Word imparted to us; here is His dwelling and here are His provisions; the table which He furnishes for...
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...
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...
ON THE THIRD DAY. That is, on the third day after they had last seen him. IN THE TEMPLE. There were porches and rooms in the Women's Court where the teachers of the Law taught classes regularly. SITTI...
_After three days they found Him in the Temple_ THE FINDING OF JESUS IN THE TEMPLE I. A lesson to boys and young men--THE MANLINESS OF OBEDIENCE AND SUBJECTION TO A MOTHER. II. Teachers may learn T...
_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...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:46 AFTER THREE DAYS (a day’s journey from Jerusalem, a day returning, and a day of searching for Jesus) his parents found Jesus IN THE TEMPLE. On the temple, see note on...
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 Kings 12:12; 1 Kings 12:5; Acts 5:34; Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 49:2;...
After three days. From the time of separation. In the temple. "We read in the Talmud that the members of the Temple - Sanhedrin, who, on ordinary days, sat as a court of appeal from the close of the m...
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...
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...
After three days — The first day was spent in their journey, the second, in their return to Jerusalem: and the third, in searching for him there: they found him in the temple — In an apartment of it:...
Observe here, 1. The place where the child Jesus is found, IN THE TEMPLE: where could there be. more likely place to find the Son of God, than in the house of his Father? No wonder that his parents fo...