Luke 2:21 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 2:21

When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called JESUS, which was so called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

KJV

And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

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Commentary

2 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (373)

(De Sabbato et Circumcisione.) For circumcision expressed nothing else, but the stripping off of the old birth, seeing that part was circumcised which caused the birth of the body. And thus it was done at that time as a sign of the future baptism through Christ. Therefore as soon as that of which it was a sign came, the figure ceased. For since the whole of the old man Adam is taken away by baptism, there remains nothing which the cutting of a part prefigures.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child,.... According to the original institution of circumcision, Gen 17:12 and which was strictly observed by religious persons, as by the parents of our Lord here, and by those of John the Baptist, Luk 1:59 Hence the Apostle Paul reckons this among his privileges, that he could have boasted of as well as other Jews; see Gill on Php 3:

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Still the circumcision of Christ had a profound bearing on His own work--by few rightly apprehended. For since "he that is circumcised is a debtor to do the whole law" (Ga 5:3), Jesus thus bore about with Him in His very flesh the seal of a voluntary obligation to do the whole law--by Him only possible in the flesh since the fall.

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
ὅτε	hote	when	G3753 →
ἐπλήσθησαν	eplēsthēsan	were fulfilled	G4130 →
ἡμέραι	hēmerai	days	G2250 →
ὀκτὼ	oktō	eight	G3638 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
περιτεμεῖν	peritemein	to circumcise	G4059 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
καὶ	kai	then	G2532 →
ἐκλήθη	eklēthē	was called	G2564 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ὄνομα	onoma	name	G3686 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
Ἰησοῦς,	Iēsous	Jesus,	G2424 →
τὸ	to	which	G3588 →
κληθὲν	klēthen	He had been called	G2564 →
ὑπὸ	hupo	by	G5259 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
ἀγγέλου	angelou	angel	G32 →
πρὸ	pro	before	G4253 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
συλλημφθῆναι	sullēmphthēnai	conceiving	G4815 →
αὐτὸν	auton	He	G846 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
κοιλίᾳ.	koilia	womb.	G2836 →

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

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

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
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
leads to
- Acts 13:23
  From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.
- Acts 4:12
  Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
- John 1:29
  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- 1 John 3:5
  But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
- Colossians 1:20–23
  and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
Through
Luke 1:31
Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.
leads to
- 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.
- Matthew 1:21
  She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- Matthew 1:25
  But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a Son. And he gave Him the name Jesus.