Luke 2:37

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 2:36-38

God took care that our Saviour’s nativity should be fully attested. To the testimony of the angels, the wise men, the shepherds, Simeon, here is added another. It is that of Anna, who is described here by her tribe and by her father. She was of the tribe of Aser, one of the meanest tribes, and of those ten tribes that were carried into the captivity of Assyria, having before made a defection (under the conduct of Jeroboam) both from the house of David and from the true worship of God. But... 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

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 2:36-38

Luke 2:36-38And there was one Anna, a prophetessFirst female testimony to Christ1.Excited by long expectations. 2. Based on personal sight. 3. Given with full candour. 4. Sealed by holy walk. 5. Crowned by a happy old age. (Van Doren.)Anna an example to the agedLet me recommend to all persons advanced in life her spirit of holy abstraction--an abstraction, not from duty, but from the sins, and cares, and vanities of the world. It is difficult to conceive a more unbecoming, or more pitiable... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 2:37

Luke 2:37Which departed not from the TempleNeglectors of public worshipI know that there are not a few who say that they can edify as well or better at home.Hence these eat their morsel alone. But, so far as I have ever known them, they are neither to be envied nor imitated. They have always been feeble, sickly, useless, spiritual dyspeptics; while as certainly all observation has shown me, and all experience has proved to me, that they who neglect the house of prayer, or come to it reluctantly... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 2:37

37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. Ver. 37. A widow of about eighty-four years ] She was now ripe, and ready, even of her own accord, to fall into God’s hand, as ripe fruits do into the hand of the gatherer. And the thoughts of death had long since forbade the banns of a second marriage. Cogita te quotidie moriturum, et de secundis nuptiis nunquam cogitabis. Think of death,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Luke 2:37

which: Exodus 38:8, 1 Samuel 2:2, Psalms 23:6, Psalms 27:4, Psalms 84:4, Psalms 84:10, Psalms 92:13, Psalms 135:1, Psalms 135:2, Revelation 3:12 but: Psalms 22:2, Acts 26:7, 1 Timothy 5:5, Revelation 7:15 Reciprocal: Numbers 30:9 - General Ezra 8:23 - we fasted Nehemiah 1:6 - day and night Psalms 1:2 - day Psalms 86:3 - for I Psalms 88:1 - I have Psalms 134:1 - which by night Proverbs 16:31 - if Daniel 9:3 - with Matthew 6:16 - when Luke 18:7 - which Acts 13:2 - fasted 1 Corinthians 7:34 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Luke 2:37

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.Fourscore and four years — These were the years of her life, not her widowhood only.Who departed not from the temple — Who attended there at all the stated hours of prayer.But served God with fastings and prayers — Even at that age.Night and day — That is, spending therein a considerable part of the night, as well as of the day. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:22-38

§ 12. JESUS PRESENTED IN THE TEMPLE, Luke 2:22-38 . The presentation in the temple must have preceded the arrival of the Magi; as after their presence Jesus would have not have been safe from Herod’s hands. Jesus underwent circumcision as he underwent death; not because of his own sin, but because he stood as representative of sinners and as a bearer of the sins of others. Called Jesus See note on Matthew 1:21. read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 2:36-38

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

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 2:1-52

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 2:36-38

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 2:37

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 2:37

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Luke 2:37

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Luke 2:37

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 2:22-38

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