Luke 2:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

Luke 2:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 53:1-2
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? …
Isaiah 7:11
Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
1 Samuel 10:2-7
When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? …

Topics

Gospel Jesus, the Christ Swaddle

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-20)

The meanest circumstances of Christ’s humiliation were all along attended with some discoveries of his glory, to balance them, and take off the offence of them; for even when he humbled himself God did in some measure exalt him and give him earnests of his future exaltation. When we saw him wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, we were tempted to say, “Surely this cannot be the Son of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. a sign--“the sign.” the babe--“a Babe.” a manger--“the manger.” The sign was to consist, it seems, solely in the overpowering contrast between the things just said of Him and the lowly condition in which they would find Him--Him whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting, “ye shall find a Babe”; whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain, “wrapt in swaddling bands”; the “Saviour…