Matthew 1:18

The birth of Jesus Christ happened in the following way. His mother, Mary, was engaged to marry Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

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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 from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

19Her husband, Joseph, was a righteous man, and he did not want to disgrace her publicly. So he decided to secretly end his engagement with her.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, 1 and between your seed and her seed. 1 He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Job 15:14What is man that he should be clean? 1 What is he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous? 1

Luke 1:25“This is what the Lord has done for me when he looked at me with favor in order to take away my shame before people.”

Galatians 4:4But when the fullness of time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law.

Hebrews 10:5When Christ came into the world, he said, 1 “Sacrifices and offerings 2 you did not desire, 2 but a body you have prepared for me; 1

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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