Luke 2:26
And he had received an answer from the Holy Spirit: that he would not see his own death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.
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Psalms 2:2The kings of the earth have stood up, and the leaders have joined together as one, against the Lord and against his Christ:
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the meek, so as to heal the contrite of heart, to preach leniency to captives and release to the confined,
Amos 3:7For the Lord God does not fulfill his word, unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets.
John 1:41First, he found his brother Simon, and he said to him, “We have found the Messiah,” (which is translated as the Christ).
John 8:51Amen, amen, I say to you, if anyone will have kept my word, he will not see death for eternity.”
Matthew Henry on Luke 2:26-41
Christ and Simeon in the Temple; Anna in the Temple. 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. 26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his… Read the whole commentary →