Matthew 1:24
And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
25And he knew her not till she brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
Cross References
Genesis 6:22And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
Genesis 22:2He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for a holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will show thee.
Exodus 40:19And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the veil before it to fulfil the commandment of the Lord.
Exodus 40:27And the altar of holocaust of the entry of the testimony, offering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the Lord had commanded.
2 Kings 5:11Naaman was angry and went away, saying: I thought he would hare come out to me, and standing would hare invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me.
John 15:14You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 1:19-25
The Birth of Christ. 18 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. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is… Read the whole commentary →