Luke 2:39
After Joseph and Mary had finished performing the rituals that ◄the Lord/God► required the parents of a first son to perform, they returned to their own town, Nazareth, in Galilee district.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
40As Jesus grew up, he became strong and very wise, and God was very pleased with him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:32“Be sure to do everything that I have commanded you to do. Do not add anything to these commands, and do not take anything away from them.”
Matthew 3:15But Jesus said to him, “Baptize me at this time, because in this way we two will do everything that God requires.” Then John consented to baptize him.
Luke 2:4So, because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he went up from Nazareth, the town in Galilee district where he lived, to the town of Bethlehem in Judea district. That was the town where King David grew up.
Luke 2:51Then he returned with them down to Nazareth. He always obeyed them. But his mother kept thinking about all those things.
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 →