Luke 2:5 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 2:5

He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to him in marriage and was expecting a child.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

to enrol himself with Mary, who was betrothed to him, being great with child.

KJV

To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

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Commentary

4 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermon I (444)

The sacred Evangelist says that Mary was betrothed to Joseph, to show that the conception had taken place upon her betrothal solely, and that the birth of the Emanuel was miraculous, and not in accordance with the laws of nature. For the holy Virgin did not bear from the immission of man's seed. And what was the reason of this?

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

But in order that men might know that it was an enrolment of righteousness, there came up to it Joseph and Mary, the just man and the virgin. He who was to be guardian of the Word and she who was to bring it forth.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

We were become by sin like an out-cast infant, helpless and forlorn; and such a one Christ was. Thus he would answer the type of Moses, the great prophet and lawgiver of the Old Testament, who was in his infancy cast out in an ark of bulrushes, as Christ in a manger.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

With Mary his espoused wife - There was no necessity for Mary to have gone to Bethlehem, as Joseph’s presence could have answered the end proposed in the census as well without Mary as with her; but God so ordered it, that the prophecy of Micah should be thus fulfilled, and that Jesus should be born in the city of David; Mic 5:2.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀπογράψασθαι	apograpsasthai	to register	G583 →
σὺν	sun	with	G4862 →
Μαριὰμ	Mariam	Mary	G3137 →
τῇ	tēa	who [was]	G3588 →
ἐμνηστευμένῃ	emnēsteumenē	betrothed	G3423 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to him	G846 →
οὔσῃ	ousē	she being	G1510 →
ἐγκύῳ.¶	egkuō	with child.	G1471 →