Matthew 1:18 BSB — MannaFest

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26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Τοῦ	Tou	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	Now	G1161 →
Ἰησοῦ	Iēsou	of Jesus	G2424 →
Χριστοῦ	Christou	Christ	G5547 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
γένεσις	genesis	origin	G1078 →
οὕτως	houtōs	thus	G3779 →
ἦν·	ēn	was happening:	G1510 →
μνηστευθείσης	mnēsteutheisēs	At the pledging	G3423 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
μητρὸς	mētros	mother	G3384 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
Μαρίας	Marias	Mary	G3137 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰωσήφ,	Iōsēph	to Joseph,	G2501 →
πρὶν	prin	before	G4250 →
ἢ	ē	than	G2228 →
συνελθεῖν	sunelthein	to come together	G4905 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	by them	G846 →
εὑρέθη	heurethē	she was found	G2147 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
γαστρὶ	gastri	womb [pregnancy]	G1064 →
ἔχουσα	echousa	having	G2192 →
ἐκ	ek	out of	G1537 →
πνεύματος	pneumatos	[the] Spirit	G4151 →
ἁγίου.	hagiou	Holy.	G40 →

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
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
leads to
- Romans 16:20
  The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 John 3:8
  The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the…
- Revelation 12:17
  And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the…
- Hebrews 2:14–15
  Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
Through
Hebrews 10:5
Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.
leads to
- Psalms 40:6–8
  Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
- Isaiah 1:11
  “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood…
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

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.

Galatians 4:4–5But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,Luke 1:35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.Luke 1:27–38to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!Hebrews 10:5Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.Matthew 1:20But after he had pondered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to embrace Mary as your wife, for the One conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.Luke 1:27to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”Hebrews 7:26Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?Luke 1:25“The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”Matthew 1:1This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:Matthew 12:46While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to Him.John 14:26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.Genesis 29:21Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”Genesis 19:14So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.Deuteronomy 20:7Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”

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