Luke 2:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

Luke 2:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 2:12
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Luke 19:32
And they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had said unto them.
Luke 2:7
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.
Luke 22:13
And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Luke 1:39
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;

Topics

Jesus, the Christ

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. 16)

16. with haste--Compare Lu 1:39; Mt 28:8 (“did run”); Joh 4:28 (“left her water-pot,” as they do their flocks, in a transport). found Mary, &c.--“mysteriously guided by the Spirit to the right place through the obscurity of the night” [Olshausen]. a manger--“the manger,” as before.