Luke 2:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,

Luke 2:28 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 1:64
And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.
Luke 2:20
And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
Luke 2:13-14
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, …
Luke 1:68
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
Psalms 135:19-20
Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron: …

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Jesus, the Christ

Commentary

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

(vv. 25-40)

Even when he humbles himself, still Christ has honour done him to balance the offence of it. That we might not be stumbled at the meanness of his birth, angels then did him honour; and now, that we may not be offended at his being presented in the temple, like other children born in sin, and without any manner of solemnity peculiar to him, but silently, and in the crowd of other children, Simeon a…

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

(vv. 28)

27-28. The Spirit guided him to the temple at the very moment when the Virgin was about to present Him to the Lord.