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Matthew 1:18 KJV
Matthew · chapter 1 · verse 18
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.Matthew 1:18 · King James Version
Matthew 1:18 in context
16And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
17So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
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.
19Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
20But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
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- espousedmnēsteuōto woo her and ask her in marriage, to be promised in marriage, be betrothedG3423 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- mothermētēra mother, metaph. the source of something, the motherlandG3384 →
- JosephiōsēphJoseph = " let him add" , the patriarch, the eleventh son of Jacob, the son of…G2501 →
- beforeprinbefore, formerlyG4250 →
- beforeēeither, or, thanG2228 →
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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 (Ecc 11:5), much less do we know how the blessed Jesus was formed in the womb of the blessed virgin.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-25