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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 par...
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...
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...
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 nev...
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 censu...
The boy Jesus in the Temple. We know nothing directly of the childhood of Jesus except this one incident, which is recorded entirely for the sake o...
Understood not ] The lapse of twelve years during which no miracle had occurred, had partly obliterated the impression made by the remarkable circum...
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 t...
the Boy Jesus in the Temple Luke 2:40-52 “Solitary floweret,” says Stier, referring to this incident, “gathered from the wonderful enclosed gar...
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. Thi...
(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, aft...
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.’ Lu...
A CONDITION OF LIFE ‘Wist ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?’ Luke 2:49 The lessons to be drawn from this incident are suffic...
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 ab...
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 u...
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 tran...
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...
Christ Sitting with the Doctors. 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year...
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...
‘And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them.' Meanwhile they did not understand what He was talking about. They could not appreci...
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...
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...
Luke 2:49-50 The Epiphany of Work. This Gospel may be called the Epiphany of Christ to the world of youth to that large portion of the great huma...
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...
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 wit...
And was subject unto them-- Obedience to parents How significant a sentence! God, whom the angels obey, is subject to Joseph and Mary I Childre...
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...
His Father's business:
And they understood not the saying which He spake unto them. The three days' search with its attendant anxiety may well have aroused the thought i...
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, w...
The Childhood of Christ Luke 2:40-52 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now into the study of a Holy Child. He was a Child different from any other ch...
It is observable that Joseph is not mentioned after this time; whence it is probable, he did not live long after.
50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.