Luke 2:39
And after they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their city Nazareth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
40And the child grew, and waxed strong, full of wisdom; and the grace of God was in him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:32What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.
Matthew 3:15And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him.
Luke 2:4And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: because he was of the house and family of David,
Luke 2:51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.
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 →