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Selected Verse: Luke 2:16 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 2:16 |
King James |
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
with haste--Compare Luk 1:39; Mat 28:8 ("did run"); Joh 4:28 ("left her water-pot," as they do their flocks, in a transport).
found Mary, &c.--"mysteriously guided by the Spirit to the right place through the obscurity of the night" [OLSHAUSEN].
a manger--"the manger," as before. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Found (ἀνεῦραν)
Only here and Act 21:4. Ἀνά indicates the discovery of the facts in succession.
Mary and Joseph and the babe
Each has the article, pointing to the several parties already referred to. |
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.