Matthew 1:18

NOW the nativity of Jeshu the Meshicha was thus: While Mariam his mother was betrothed to Jauseph, before they could be consociated, she was found to be with child from the Spirit of Holiness.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

17Thus all the generations from Abraham to David (were) fourteen generations; and from David to the exile of Bobel, fourteen generations; and from the exile of Bobel to the Meshicha, fourteen generations.

19But Jauseph her husband was just, and, not willing to defame her, meditated privately to release her.

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Cross References

Luke 1:25And she said, These things hath the Lord done for me in the days of my desolation, to take away my reproach from among the children of men.

Galatians 4:4But when the fulness of the time had come, Aloha sent his Son, and made from a woman, and made under the law,

Hebrews 10:5Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith, Sacrifices and oblations thou hast not willed, but with a body hast thou clothed 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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