Matthew 1:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Now 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.

Matthew 1:18 —

Old words in this verse

ghost: — spirit, breath of life.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 4:4-5
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, …
Luke 1:27-38
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. …
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Hebrews 10:5
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 18-25)

The mystery of Christ’s incarnation is to be adored, not pried into. If we know not the way of the Spirit in the formation of common persons, nor how the bones are formed in the womb of any one that is with child (Eccl. 11:5), much less do we know how the blessed Jesus was formed in the womb of the blessed virgin. When David admires how he himself was made in secret, and curiously wrought (Ps. 139…

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

(vv. 18)

18. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise--or, “thus.” When as his mother Mary was espoused--rather, “betrothed.” to Joseph, before they came together, she was found--discovered to be. with child of the Holy Ghost--It was, of course, the fact only that was discovered; the explanation of the fact here given is the Evangelist’s own. That the Holy Ghost is a living conscious Person is plainl…