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
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 rega...
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...
increased . advanced, in wisdom. See App-117. stature . maturity in all respects. with . from beside. Greek. para. App-104. man . men. Greek...
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 rema...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature— The word signifies either age or stature; but the latter seems evidently to be here meant. Erasmus r...
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...
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...
See on Luke 2:40 .
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 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...
(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...
REFLECTIONS Reader! how little did the Roman Emperor Augustus, or his deputy Cyrenius, conceive, that the over-ruling power of God so arranged the t...
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 favou...
INCREASING IN WISDOM ‘Jesus increased in wisdom.’ Luke 2:52 The Gospels do not give us, nor do they attempt to give us, a detailed history o...
And Jesus increased in wisdom ,.... As man; for neither his divine wisdom, nor the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in him, as mediator, could admi...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. Ver. 52. Increased in wisdom ] Being παιδαριογερων, as Macarius was ca...
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 natur...
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...
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 Scrip...
‘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, an...
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 2:40 , Luke 2:49 ; Luke 2:52 (with Mark 6:3 ; John 4:34 ; John 10:18 ; John 10:30 ) The Germ of Christian Manhood. Man and God a...
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 Jesus increased in wisdom-- A pattern childhood and youth 1. He grew, not in stature only, but in wisdom and favour with God and man. Chr...
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...
The return to Nazareth:
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. A period of approximately eighteen years is covered in this simple state...
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...
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...
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature,g and in favour with God and man.