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Matthew 1:18

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit.

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In The King James Version

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

In Context

17So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.

19And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:15And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

Job 15:14What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Luke 1:25The Lord has done this to me, for his eyes were on me, to take away my shame in the eyes of men.

Galatians 4:4But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Hebrews 10:5So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;

Matthew Henry on Matthew 1:2-18

Matthew to John The one half of our undertaking upon the New Testament It may be proper to apprise the reader that the volume to which this preface was originally prefixed included the Acts of the Apostles, which in the present edition will commence the second volume, in order to secure a more equal division of the New Testament—the commentary on the remaining books being less extended than the author contemplated .—Ed . is now, by the assistance of divine grace, finished, and presented to the reader, who, it is… Read the whole commentary →

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