Luke 2:42 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. ”

Luke 2:42 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Twelve years old - All males among the Hebrews were required to appear three times a year before God, to attend on the ordinances of religion in the temple, and it is probable that this was the a...
Luke 2:42 - 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...
Luke 2:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

twelve years old : when every Jewish boy becomes "a son of the law "If they performed "all things" according to the Law, Joseph had paid the five shekels redemption money ( Numbers 3:47 ; Numb...
Luke 2:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
Luke 2:42 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And when he was twelve years old— To shew how eminent Jesus was for his wisdom even in his childhood, the evangelist gives us the remarkable instance here recorded. When he was twelve years of age...
Luke 2:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. At the ag...
Luke 2:42 - 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...
Luke 2:42 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(42) When he was twelve years old. — The stages of Jewish childhood were marked as follows: — At three the boy was weaned, and wore for the first time the fringed or tasselled garment prescribed by...
Luke 2:42 - 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...
Luke 2:42 - 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...
Luke 2:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
Luke 2:42 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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 2:42-51 In this passage we learn something o...
Luke 2:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when he was twelve years old ,.... Not that he was now, בר מצוה, "a son of the commandment", r to use the Jewish phrase; or now came under the yoke of the law; or was obliged to the duties of ad...
Luke 2:42 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. Ver. 42. And when he was twelve years old ] What he did from his infancy hitherto, the Scripture is sile...
Luke 2:42 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Luke 2:42 - 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...
Luke 2:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Christ Sitting with the Doctors. 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. 42 And when he was...
Luke 2:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

It is said by those who are learned in the Jewish writings, that till a child was of this age he was not obliged by the law to go. We have in Scripture nothing to ascertain us in the case; it is cert...
Luke 2:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Luke 2:42 - 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...
Luke 2:42 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Luke 2:41-42 It was at twelve years old that Jewish boys came personally under the obligations of the law of Moses. Up to that age they had been treated as children, taught by their parents at hom...
Luke 2:42 - 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...
Luke 2:42 - 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...
Luke 2:42 - 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...
Luke 2:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Christ-Child in the Temple. Luke 2:41-52 The trip to Jerusalem:
Luke 2:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Luke 2:42 - 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...

Luke 2:42 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Luke 2:42 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 2:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Luke 2:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Luke 2:42 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Luke 2:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Luke 2:42 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 2:42 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Luke 2:42 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Luke 2:42 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Luke 2:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Luke 2:42 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Luke 2:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Luke 2:42 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Luke 2:42 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 2:42 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 2:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Luke 2:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Luke 2:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 2:42 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Luke 2:42 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Luke 2:42 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 2:42 - The Biblical Illustrator

Luke 2:42 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Luke 2:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Luke 2:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 2:42 - Wells of Living Water Commentary