1And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
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Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The fulness of time was now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman , and made under the law ; and it was foretold that he should be born at Bethlehem. Now here we have an account of the time, place, and manner of it. I. The time when our Lord Jesus was born. Several things may be gathered out of these verses which intimate to us that it was the proper time . 1. He was born at the…
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