“ And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. ”
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...
47. And all who heard him Two things here claim our attention. All who heard him were astonished: for they reckoned it a miracle, that a child should frame his questions with such correct...
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. Answers: - The word αποκρισις here seems not to mean answers only, but what Jesus said by way of question to the doctors, Luk...
And all that heard him were astonished— The words rendered astonished in this verse, and amazed in the next, are much more forcible than our translation of them. They import, that they were in...
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. This confirms what we have said above, that w...
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...
At his understanding and answers. — The first word seems to point to the discernment which showed itself in the questions as well as the answers. The egotism of Josephus leads him to speak of himse...
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...
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...
(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 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...
And all that heard him were astonished ,.... All in the sanhedrim, both the doctors, and their disciples, were amazed, at his understanding ; in the knowledge of the law, and of the Scriptures:...
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. Ver. 47. At his understanding ] Which was so large, even as man, that some have affirmed it to be infinite, and uncreated;...
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...
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...
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...
What was the subject matter of the doctors and Christ's discourses is vainly questioned, only in the general we may be assured it was something about the Divine law; what the particular themes or sub...
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...
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 2:41-52 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...
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...
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...
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...
His Father's business:
John 7:15 ; John 7:46 ; Luke 4:22 ; Luke 4:32 ; Mark 1:22 ; Matthew 7:28 ; Psalms 119:99
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...