Luke 2:12 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
τοῦτο	touto	this [is]	G3778 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
σημεῖον·	sēmeion	sign:	G4592 →
εὑρήσετε	heurēsete	You will find	G2147 →
βρέφος	brephos	a baby	G1025 →
ἐσπαργανωμένον	esparganōmenon	swaddled	G4683 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
κείμενον	keimenon	lying	G2749 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
φάτνῃ.	phatnē	a manger.	G5336 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
leads to
- Matthew 1:23
  “Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
- Isaiah 9:6
  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of…
- Luke 1:31
  Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.
- John 1:1–2
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- John 1:14
  The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Through
Isaiah 7:11
“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”
leads to
- Isaiah 37:30
  And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
leads to
- Isaiah 53:3
  He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
- Job 25:6
  how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.Luke 2:16So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and the Baby, who was lying in the manger.Isaiah 53:1–2Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?Isaiah 7:11“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.1 Samuel 10:7When these signs have come, do as the occasion demands, for God is with you.Ezekiel 16:4On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.2 Kings 19:29And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.Matthew 8:20Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”2 Kings 20:8Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”1 Samuel 10:2–7When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’Exodus 3:12“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”1 Samuel 2:34And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.

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