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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

路加福音 2:5

與所聘之妻馬利亞一同登記戶口。那時馬利亞的身孕已經重了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Mary;   Tribute (Taxes);   Thompson Chain Reference - Mary;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Humility of Christ, the;   Prophecies Respecting Christ;   Tribute;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Mary;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Messiah;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Husband;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Betrothal;   Census;   Enrollment;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Luke, Gospel of;   Taxes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joseph;   Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Annunciation, the ;   Betrothal;   Birth of Christ;   Body (2);   Census;   Mary, the Virgin;   Ministry;   Taxing ;   Virgin Birth;   Winter ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Betrothment;   Census;   Joseph ;   Taxes, Taxation, Taxing;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bride;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Espousal;   Joseph, Husband of Mary;   Papyrus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 27;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
要 和 他 所 聘 之 妻 马 利 亚 一 同 报 名 上 册 。 那 时 马 利 亚 的 身 孕 已 经 重 了 。

Contextual Overview

1 At that time, Augustus Caesar sent an order that all people in the countries under Roman rule must list their names in a register. 2 This was the first registration; it was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to their own towns to be registered. 4 So Joseph left Nazareth, a town in Galilee, and went to the town of Bethlehem in Judea, known as the town of David. Joseph went there because he was from the family of David. 5 Joseph registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was now pregnant. 6 While they were in Bethlehem, the time came for Mary to have the baby, 7 and she gave birth to her first son. Because there were no rooms left in the inn, she wrapped the baby with pieces of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 22:22-27, Matthew 1:18, Matthew 1:19

Reciprocal: Matthew 1:16 - Joseph Matthew 13:55 - is not this Luke 1:27 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:11
The first river, named Pishon, flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is excellent. Bdellium and onyx are also found there.
Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God forced Adam out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:2
After that, Eve gave birth to Cain's brother Abel. Abel took care of flocks, and Cain became a farmer.
Genesis 4:12
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."
Job 5:10
He gives rain to the earth and sends water on the fields.
Psalms 104:14
You make the grass for cattle and vegetables for the people. You make food grow from the earth.
Psalms 135:7
He brings the clouds from the ends of the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain. He brings out the wind from his storehouses.
Jeremiah 14:22
Do foreign idols have the power to bring rain? Does the sky itself have the power to send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. You are our only hope, because you are the one who made all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife,.... Whom also he had married, though he had not known her in a carnal way; she came along with him to be taxed and enrolled also, because she was of the same family of David, and belonged to the same city:

being great with child; very near her time, and yet, though in such circumstances, was obliged by this edict, to come to Bethlehem; and the providence in it was, that she might give birth there, and so the prophecy in Micah 5:2 have its accomplishment: this was an instance, and an example, of obedience to civil magistrates.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 2:5. With Mary his espoused wife — There was no necessity for Mary to have gone to Bethlehem, as Joseph's presence could have answered the end proposed in the census as well without Mary as with her; but God so ordered it, that the prophecy of Micah should be thus fulfilled, and that Jesus should be born in the city of David; Micah 5:2.


 
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