Luke 2:34
And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;
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In Context
33And his father and mother were full of wonder at the things which were said about him.
35(And a sword will go through your heart;) so that the secret thoughts of men may come to light.
Cross References
Genesis 47:7Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.
Leviticus 9:22And Aaron, lifting up his hands to the people, gave them a blessing; and he came down from offering the sin-offering, and the burned offering, and the peace-offerings.
Psalms 69:9\69:8\I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.
Isaiah 8:18See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, whose resting-place is in Mount Zion.
Matthew 11:19The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.
Matthew 21:44Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.
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 →