Matthew 1:18

And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: for His mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from 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

17All the generations, therefore, from Abraham to David [are] fourteen generations, and from David to the Babylonian removal fourteen generations, and from the Babylonian removal to the Christ, fourteen generations.

19and her husband Joseph being righteous, and not willing to make her an example, resolved to send her away privately.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:15and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel.”

Job 15:14What [is] man that he is pure, || And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

Luke 1:25“Thus the LORD has done to me, in days in which He looked on [me], to take away my reproach among men.”

Galatians 4:4and when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

Hebrews 10:5For this reason, coming into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You did not will, and a body You prepared 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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