Luke 2:1
Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.
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2This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.
Cross References
Matthew 22:17Give us, then, your opinion of this: Is it right to give tax to Caesar, or not?
Mark 14:9And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.
Luke 3:1Now in the fifteenth year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being ruler of Judaea, and Herod being king of Galilee, his brother Philip king of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias king of Abilene,
Acts 25:11If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.
Romans 1:8First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.
Matthew Henry on Luke 2:1
In this chapter, we have an account of the birth and infancy of our Lord Jesus: having had notice of his conception, and of the birth and infancy of his forerunner, in the former chapter. The First-begotten is here brought into the world; let us go meet him with our hosannas, blessed is he that cometh. Here is, I. The place and other circumstances of his birth, which proved him to be the true Messiah, and such a one as we needed, but not such a one as the Jews expected, ver. 1-7 . II. The notifying of his birth to… Read the whole commentary →