5To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
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If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. …
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. …
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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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