And so it was, that while they were there,.... At Bethlehem, waiting to be called and enrolled in their turn;
the days were accomplished that she should be delivered; her reckoning was up, the nine months of her going with child were ended, and her full time to bring forth was come.
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 ...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS. Lk. only. In obedi ence to a decree of the Emperor Augustus, ordering a general census (the first, during the Syrian governor ship of Quirinius), every man went to his own city. Th...
In these days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world. The census first took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria; and everyone went to enroll himse...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
SO IT WAS. it came to pass; as in Luke 2:1. WHILE. in (Greek. _en._ App-104.) the time....
_the days were accomplished_ There is a reasonable certainty that our Lord was born b. c. 4 of our era, and it is _probable_that He was born (according to the unanimous tradition of the Christian Chur...
ἘΠΛΉΣΘΗΣΑΝ ΑἹ ἩΜΈΡΑΙ. There is a reasonable certainty that our Lord was born B.C. 4 of our era, and it is _probable_ that He was born (according to the unanimous tradition of the Christian Church) in...
Luke 2:1-7. THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST In this chapter as in the last there is a prevailing triplicity of arrangement. In the first section we have—α. The Nativity, 1–7. β. The Angelic Announcement, 8...
VER 6. AND SO IT WAS, THAT, WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED THAT SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED. 7. AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, AND LAID H...
ΕΊΝΑΙ _praes. act. inf., см._ Luke 2:4. _Inf._ с _предл._ ΈΝ (G1722) в, выражает время, _см._ Luke 2:1. ΈΠΛΉΣΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΠΊΜΠΛΗΜΙ (G4130) наполнять, выполнять, ΤΕΚΕΪΝ _aor. act. inf. о...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Portents (Luke 2:1-21) In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all 2 the world should be enrolled. 2This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was go...
And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. AND SO IT WAS, THAT, WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED THAT SHE SHOULD BE DELIV...
We have here a most notable example of God's overruling providence. Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth, and Christ must be born in Bethlehem. How is this to be brought about ? Little did Cresar dream t...
7. THE NATIVITY. See on Matthew 2:1. There is an inward fitness that He, who for our sake emptied Himself of His glory, should be born in a stable and laid in a manger, but assuredly it would never ha...
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...
_The birth_. ἐπλήσθησαν αἱ ἡ., as in Luke 1:57. In this case, as in that of John, the natural course was run. ἐσπαργάνωσεν (here and Luke 2:12), ἀνέκλινεν : the narrative runs as if Mary did these thi...
THE SAVIOR OF MANKIND IS BORN Luke 2:1-14 The manger bed and its precious occupant are among the most cherished memories of our childhood; but as we come there in later life, the wonder ever grows....
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...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS Luke 2:1-7. _“It came to pass in those days [i.e., in the days above mentioned, with reference to John the Baptist and the annunciation of the coming Christ], a decree went forth fr...
FIFTH NARRATIVE: THE BIRTH OF THE SAVIOUR, LUKE 2:1-20. Henceforth there exists in the midst of corrupt humanity a pure Being, on whom God's regard can rest with unmingled satisfaction. Uniting in thi...
1. _The Birth of Jesus: Luke 2:1-7_. And first a historical note: Luke 2:1-2. The words _in those days_ refer to the time which followed the birth of John the Baptist, and give the remark in Luke 1:80...
(1) And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (2) (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) ...
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...
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 so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. Ver. 6. _The days were accomplished_] Her delivery might well be hastened, or at least facilitated...
_And while they were there, the days were accomplished_, &c. Whatever views Mary might have in going up to Bethlehem, her going there was doubtless by the direction of Divine Providence, in order that...
The birth of the Savior:...
AND SO IT WAS THAT, WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED THAT SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED....
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 ...
1-7 The fulness of time was now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law. The circumstances of his birth were very mean. Christ was born at an inn; he came int...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 1:4...
Luke 2:6 G1161 was G1096 (G5633) while G1722 they G846 were G1511 (G5750) there G1563 days G2
Luke 2:6. WHILE THEY WERE THERE. Apocryphal legends tell how she was overtaken on the way, and sought refuge in a cave. They seem to have arrived in Bethlehem, and sought shelter in vain, before the t...
Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem (Matthew 2:1-11). This section narrates: the circumstances which led His mother from Nazareth (chap. Luke 1:26; Luke 1:56) to Bethlehem ...
THAT SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED (του τεκειν αυτην).FOR THE BEARING THE CHILD AS TO HER . A neat use of the articular infinitive, second aorist active, with the accusative of general reference. From...
Luke 2:1 The Child and the Emperor. I. "It came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." In the original meaning of these words, t...
We WILL now read the story of our Saviour's birth as it is recorded in the Gospel according to Luke. Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, th...
Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
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...
THE TIME CAME FOR HER TO HAVE HER BABY. The order from Emperor Augustus fulfilled scripture by bringing Mary and Joseph here, so Jesus would be born in Bethlehem (see Micah 5:1-2)....
_A decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed There is no grand reason, you see, given why Mary and Joseph should go to Judaea._ The angel who is said to have announced the coming...
_The days were accomplished_ THE BIRTH OF CHRIST The whole of the world’s history led up to this night. It is the hinge on which the history of man turns. The whole of mankind from Adam waited for t...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:6 THE TIME CAME. See Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:1....
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...
_And so it was that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered._ Here the prophecy of Micah 5:2, that Christ should be born in Bethlehem, was fulfilled. _Went up_...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:1. ALL THE WORLD.—_I.e._ the Roman world (_orbis terrarum_). TAXED.—Rather, “enrolled,” something like a modern census, but with a view to taxation. Luke 2:2. THIS WAS THE FIR...
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...
Luke 1:57; Micah 5:2; Proverbs 19:21; Psalms 33:11; Revelation 12:1...
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...
And while they were there, the days were fulfilled that she should be delivered — Mary seems not to have known that the child must have been born in Bethlehem, agreeably to the prophecy. But the provi...