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Matthew 1:18

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

World English Bible

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 are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.

19Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

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Cross References

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

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

Luke 1:25“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

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

Hebrews 10:5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared 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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