Matthew 1:18

This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah happened. His mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, but before they slept together she became pregnant 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 add up to fourteen; from David to the Babylonian exile, fourteen; and from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah, fourteen.

19Joseph, her fiancé, was a good man and didn't want to shame her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement discreetly.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:15I will make sure you and your children, and the woman and her children, are enemies. One of her children will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Job 15:14Who can say they are clean? Which human being can say that they do what is right?

Luke 1:25“The Lord has done this for me,” she said, “now that he's taken away my disgrace in the eyes of others.”

Galatians 4:4But at the appropriate time God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the rule of law,

Hebrews 10:5That's why when Christ came into the world he said, “You didn't want sacrifices or offerings, but you did prepare a body 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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