Luke 2:29
Lord, now thou leavest thy servant after thy word in peace; (Lord, now thou lettest thy servant go or to depart in peace, according to thy word;)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
In Context
28he took him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,
30for mine eyes have seen thine health, (for my eyes have seen thy salvation or thy deliverance,)
Cross References
Genesis 46:30And the father said to Joseph, Now I shall die joyful, for I have seen thy face, and I (shall) leave thee living.
Isaiah 57:1A just man perisheth, and none is that thinketh in his heart; and men of mercy be gathered together, for none there is that understandeth; for why a just man is gathered from the face of malice. (The just, or the righteous, perish, and no one thinketh about it in their hearts, or in their minds; and people of mercy be taken away, and no one understandeth, that the just, or the righteous, have been taken away, before that malice, or the evil, come.)
Philippians 1:23But I am constrained of two things, I have desire to be departed [from the body], and to be with Christ, it is much more better; (For I am constrained by two things, I have a desire to be departed (from this body), and to be with the Messiah, (it is) so much better than living;)
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 →