Luke 2:35 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁵(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

Luke 2:35 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 11:19
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Matthew 12:24-35
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. …
Acts 8:21-23
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. …
Psalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

Topics

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. 35)

34-35. set--appointed. fall and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against--Perhaps the former of these phrases expresses the two stages of temporary “fall of many in Israel” through unbelief, during our Lord’s earthly career, and the subsequent “rising again” of the same persons after the effusion of the Spirit at pentecost threw a new light to them on the whole subject; while…