Luke 2:7 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 2:7

And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

BSB

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ASV

And she brought forth her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

KJV

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

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Commentary

8 voices

Ambrose of Milan

EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 2.41-42 (397)

Therefore, He was a little child, an infant, so that you, a man, may become perfect; He was wrapped in swaddling clothes, so that you may be freed from the snares of death; He was in a manger, so that you may be on the altar; He was on earth, so that you may be in heaven; He had no other place in that inn, so that you may have many mansions in heavenly seats. He, being rich, became poor for your sake, so that through His poverty, you may be enriched.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Against Helvidius (420)

No midwife assisted at His birth; no women's officiousness intervened. With her own hands she wrapped Him in the swaddling clothes, herself both mother and midwife, [Luke 2:7] "and laid Him," we are told, "in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn"; a statement which, on the one hand, refutes the ravings of the apocryphal accounts, for Mary herself wrapped Him in the swaddling clothes, and on the other makes the voluptuous notion of Helvidius impossible, since there was no place suitable for married intercourse in the inn.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And she brought forth her firstborn son,.... At Bethlehem, as was predicted; and the Jews themselves own, that the Messiah is already born, and born at Bethlehem. They have a tradition, that an Arabian should say to a Jew (k). "Lo! the king Messiah is born; he said to him, what is his name? Menachem: he asked him, what is his father's name? he replied to him, Hezekiah; he said unto him, from whence is he? he answered, from the palace of the king of Bethlehem.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

She laid him in the manger - Perhaps it might rather be translated in the stall. They were lodged in the ox stall, fitted up on occasion of the great concourse, for poor guests. There was no room for them in the inn - Now also, there is seldom room for Christ in an inn.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Her first-born son - Whether Mary had any other children or not has been a matter of controversy. The obvious meaning of the Bible is that she had; and if this be the case, the word “firstborn” is here to be taken in its common signification. Swaddling clothes - When a child among the Hebrews was born, it was washed in water, rubbed in salt, and then wrapped in swaddling clothes; that is, not garments regularly made, as with us, but bands or blankets that confined the limbs closely, Eze 16:

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

(1862)

Modern Voices1 voice

G.K. Chesterton

1874–1936

The Everlasting Man, Part II Ch. 1 "The God in the Cave" (1925)

It was here that a homeless couple had crept underground with the cattle when the doors of the crowded caravanserai had been shut in their faces.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἔτεκεν	eteken	she brought forth	G5088 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
υἱὸν	huion	son	G5207 →
αὐτῆς	autēs	of her	G846 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
πρωτότοκον	prōtotokon	firstborn	G4416 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐσπαργάνωσεν	esparganōsen	wrapped in swaddling cloths	G4683 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀνέκλινεν	aneklinen	she laid	G347 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
φάτνῃ,	phatnē	a manger,	G5336 →
διότι	dioti	because	G1360 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἦν	ēn	there was	G1510 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	for them	G846 →
τόπος	topos	a place	G5117 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
καταλύματι.¶	katalumati	inn.	G2646 →

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
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.
leads to
- 1 John 4:9
  This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
- 1 Timothy 3:16
  By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world,…
- Galatians 4:4
  But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- John 1:1
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- Isaiah 40:5
  And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
Through
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
leads to
- Romans 8:32
  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- Philippians 2:6–8
  Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
- Matthew 20:28
  just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”