Luke 2:40 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. ”

• Luke 2:40 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Strong in spirit - In mind, intellect, understanding. Jesus had a human soul, and that soul was subject to all the proper laws of a human spirit. It therefore increased in knowledge, strength, an...

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• Luke 2:40 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, (u) filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. (u) As Christ grew up in age, so the virtue of his Godhead showed itself more and more.

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• Luke 2:40 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Luke 2:40 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  in spirit . All the texts omit this. App-101. Matthew 2 comes in here. the grace , &c. Compare John 1:14 . Isaiah 11:2 ; Isaiah 11:3 .

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• Luke 2:40 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  40. And the child grew From the infancy of Christ Matthew passes immediately to his manifestation. (230) Luke relates here a single fact, which well deserved to be recorded. In the midst of...

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• Luke 2:40 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. The child grew - As to his body - being in perfect health. Waxed strong in spirit - His rationa...

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• Luke 2:40 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And the grace of God was upon him— See the note on Luke 2:52 .

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• Luke 2:40 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit - His mental development keeping pace wit...

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• Luke 2:40 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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, e...

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• Luke 2:40 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Waxed strong in spirit. — The better MSS. omit the last two words. Filled with wisdom. — The Greek participle implies the continuous process of “being filled,” and so conveys the thought express...

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• Luke 2:40 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Luke 2:40 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 fore...

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• Luke 2:40 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (39) And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. (40) And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with...

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• Luke 2:40 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the child grew ,.... In body, in strength, and in stature; which shows that it was a true body Christ assumed, and like ours, which did not come to its maturity at once, but by degrees: and wa...

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• Luke 2:40 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. Ver. 40. And the grace of God was upon him ] Without measure: so that of his overflow we hav...

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• Luke 2:40 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And when they Namely, the parents of Jesus; had performed all things according to the law Which they made conscience of doing, that they might fulfil all righteousness; they returned into Galile...

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• Luke 2:40 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 wor...

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• Luke 2:40 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ and Simeon in the Temple; Anna in the Temple.       25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the...

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• Luke 2:40 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This verse shortly sums up all that we have in the Gospel of the history of the first twelve years of our Saviour's life. Though there could be no accession to the perfection of the Divine nature in...

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• Luke 2:40 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Anna the Prophetess Comes To Where Jesus Is In the Temple and Gives Thanks to God and Spreads the News Among the Godly In Israel (2:36-40). In the larger chiasmus (see on introduction to Luke 1:1...

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• Luke 2:40 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 o...

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• Luke 2:40 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Luke 2:40 I. "The Child grew." He grew in stature, and He grew in character and goodness. He did not stand still. Although it was God Himself who was revealed to us in the life of Jesus Christ, ye...

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• Luke 2:40 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Luke 2:1-9 . 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...

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• Luke 2:40 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 issue...

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• Luke 2:40 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Luke 2:40 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 2:1-42 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 r...

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• Luke 2:40 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The prophetess Anna:

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• Luke 2:40 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 2:18 ; 1 Samuel 2:26 ; 1 Samuel 3:19 ; 2 Timothy 2:1 ; Acts 4:33 ; Colossians 2:2 ; Colossians 2:3 ; Ephesians 6:10 ; Isaiah 11:1-5 ; Isaiah 53:1 ; Isaiah 53:2 ; John 1:14 ; Jud...

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• Luke 2:40 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Seven Magnificats Selections from Luke 1:1-80 and Luke 2:1-52 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Chri...

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• Luke 2:40 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And the child grew — In bodily strength and stature; and waxed strong in spirit — The powers of his human mind daily improved; filled with wisdom — By the light of the indwelling Spirit, which grad...

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