Luke 2:34

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:21-35

Jesus Is Circumcised and Presented at the Temple and Is Blessed By Simon Who Prophesies Over Him (2:21-35). The purification of Mary and Jesus from the ritual defilement of child birth was necessary due to the requirements of Jewish Law, something that would take forty days, and offerings and sacrifices would then be made once the period was over. The fact that the birth had made Mary ‘unclean’ is clear evidence of the genuineness of the birth and of the fact that the one born was true man. It... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:33-35

‘And his father and his mother were marvelling at the things which were spoken concerning him, and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother,’ “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, And for a sign which is spoken against. (Yes, and a sword will pierce through your own soul), That thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.” His father and mother ‘were marvelling’. They continued to marvel at what was said of Him each time that it happened, including... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:25-35

Luke 2:25-Habakkuk : . Simeon.— As the family enters the Temple they are met by Simeon, an aged man whose devout life and expectation of Messiah had been rewarded by a Divine intimation that he should live to see the Christ. He has been guided by the Spirit, and taking the child in his arms thanks God for the fulfilment of his heart’ s desire. He blesses the astonished parents, and tells the mother that the babe is destined to be a stumbling-block ( Isaiah 8:14, Matthew 21:44) to many in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 2:34-35

Simeon blessed them: some may question how it was that Simeon blessed Christ, whereas the apostle tells us, The less is blessed of the better, Hebrews 7:7. But we must distinguish between: 1. A prophetical blessing, as Jacob blessed his sons, which was nothing but a prediction how God would bless them. 2. An authoritative blessing, as the priests blessed the people in the name of the Lord, Numbers 6:1-27; which is nothing but a pronouncing them blessed by authority from God, whom God hath... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 2:21-39

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 2:21. The child.—The best MSS. read “Him.”Luke 2:22. Her purification.—The true reading is, “their purification” (R.V.). The mother was ceremonially unclean by child-birth, the others of the household by daily contact. The law of purification is given in Leviticus 12:0. At the conclusion of forty days a lamb was to be offered as a burnt-offering, and a turtle-dove or young pigeon as a sin-offering. In case of poverty two turtle-doves or young pigeons were to be offered... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 2:34

Luke 2:34 The Dual Aspect of Christ's Advent. The words of Simeon in the text seem to be intended to check natural but undue expectations about the effect of the first coming of Christ. The Child of Mary, the everlasting Son of the Father, is set by the counsels of God, set in Jewish history, in human history, for the fall and rising again of many a human soul. I. Let us here remark, that Christ's coming into the world was not to have a uniform effect upon human souls. It would act on one soul... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 2:34-35

Luke 2:34-35 I. That is the claim which Christ has upon us; that He knows us. As it is said, "He knew what was in man," and He does not merely know our faces, our forms, but our true selves. You know nothing of any science or thing until you know its hidden inner secret. Man has a great hidden nature, waiting for revealment and development. Christ is the true Revealer of the hidden nature of man. He walked amidst the mysteries of man's spirit, as one there perfectly at home. II. Knowledge of... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 2:34-35

DISCOURSE: 1478THE ENDS AND EFFECTS OF CHRIST’S EXHIBITION TO THE WOULDLuke 2:34-35. Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.THE ways of God are deep and unsearchable. The richest displays of his love have been often accompanied with the heaviest afflictions. The honour bestowed on Paul was the forerunner of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 2:1-52

Now it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And the taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syra.) And all went to be taxed, every one to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, and unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, (because he was of the house and the lineage of David,) to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, who at this point was... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 2:1-52

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 issued for a general taxation according to men’s property. This emperor, after the battle of Actium, became so popular, that the senate invited him to take the reins of government into his hands, which laid, properly speaking, the foundation of the imperial monarchy of Rome. Augustus, as a man of... read more