“ And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. ”
They understood not ... - It is remarkable that they did not understand Jesus in this, but it shows how slow persons are to believe. Even his parents, after all that had taken place, did not seem...
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...
understood not. Compare Luke 9:45 ; Luke 18:34 . Mark 9:32 ; 2 John 1:10 ; 2 John 1:10 ; John 1:11 ; John 10:6 .
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
They understood not the saying— They did not fully comprehend the meaning of this expression. The phrase implies, that there was something more in Christ's words than at first appeared.
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. Probably He had never said so much to them, and so they were confound...
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...
They understood not the saying. — We are apt to think that they should have understood, and sceptical criticism has seen in this a contradiction to the previous history of the Annunciation and the Bi...
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 they understood not the saying, .... What he meant by his Father's house, or his Father's business, and the necessity of his being there, and about that: which he spake unto them ; at that tim...
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. Ver. 50. They understood not ] Yet were well versed in the Scriptures. If God give us not night as well as light, we are still to seek...
And when they saw him they were amazed The clause, thus rendered, signifies, that Joseph and Mary were amazed when they saw him, but it may be translated, They who saw him were amazed , namely, no...
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...
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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:
Luke 18:34 ; Luke 9:45
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...
It is observable that Joseph is not mentioned after this time; whence it is probable, he did not live long after.