Matthew 1:18

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was likewise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. (o. pneuma)

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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

17So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

19Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privately.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

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

Luke 1:25Thus has the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

Galatians 4:4But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Hebrews 10:5Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared 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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