“ And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature,g and in favour with God and man. ”
In favour with God - That is, in proportion to his advance in wisdom. This does not imply that he ever lacked the favor of God, but that God regarded him with favor in proportion as he showed an...
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...
increased . advanced, in wisdom. See App-117. stature . maturity in all respects. with . from beside. Greek. para. App-104. man . men. Greek. anthropos. App-123.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. Jesus increased in wisdom - See on Luke 2:40 (note). The following remarks, taken chiefly from Mr. Claude, on the foregoi...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature— The word signifies either age or stature; but the latter seems evidently to be here meant. Erasmus remarks, (nearlyin these words) that all the endowm...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature. So our translators have rendered the word х heelikia ( G2244 )], wit...
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...
Jesus increased in wisdom and stature. — Here again we have nothing but a normal orderly development. With Him, as with others, wisdom widened with the years, and came into His human soul through t...
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...
(51) And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. (52) And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour wit...
AT NAZARETH ‘And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them.… And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.’ Luke 2:51-52 In this gl...
And Jesus increased in wisdom ,.... As man; for neither his divine wisdom, nor the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in him, as mediator, could admit of any increase; but as he grew in body, the fac...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. Ver. 52. Increased in wisdom ] Being παιδαριογερων, as Macarius was called, while a child, for his extraordinary grace a...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature In the perfections of his divine nature there could be no increase; but this is spoken of his human nature, consisting of a reasonable soul and human flesh...
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...
If any ask how he, who was the eternal Wisdom of the Father, (who is the only wise God), increased in wisdom, they must know that all things in Scripture which are spoken of Christ, are not spoken wi...
‘And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men.' Meanwhile Jesus continued to grow in wisdom and in physical strength, and in favour with God and men. He did not at this s...
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...
The return to Nazareth:
1 Samuel 2:26 ; Acts 7:10 ; Acts 7:9 ; Luke 1:80 ; Luke 2:40 ; Proverbs 3:3 ; Proverbs 3:4 ; Romans 14:18
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...
Jesus increased in wisdom — As to his human nature, and in favour with God — In proportion to that increase. It plainly follows, that though a man were pure, even as Christ was pure, still he would...