She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    And she brought forth her fyrst begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadlynge cloothes and layed him in a manger because ther was no roume for them within in the ynne.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    And she brought foorth her first begotten sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laide him in a cratch, because there was no roome for them in the ynne.

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Cross-references (12)

Passages linked to Luke 2:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
  • 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
  • Isaiah 53:2-3 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
  • John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
  • Matthew 1:25 and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.
  • Matthew 8:20 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
  • Luke 2:11-12 For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”
  • Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  • Psalms 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
  • Matthew 13:55 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
  • Exodus 4:24 On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
  • Luke 10:34 came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and…

7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

Ver. 7. And she brought forth her firstborn] Whether she were Deipara, the mother of God, was a great controversy, and raised a great storm in the Council of Ephesus; insomuch as the emperor declared both sides heretics. But forasmuch as she was the mother of Christ, Mat 1:23, and Christ is God; in bringing forth Christ, she was the mother of God. θεοτοκος non θεοδοχος, ut voluit Nestorius. Whether she continued after this a virgin, pie credimus sed nihil affirmamus. But that she vowed virginity, as Papists say, we deny: for how could she promise virginity to God, and marriage to Joseph? There is a story, that when the old Romans had founded Templum pacis, Temple of peace, they sent to ask Apollo how long it should stand? he answered, Until a virgin brought forth: this they took to be perpetual. But therein they were as much mistaken as those Africans, who having an oracle, that when the Romans sent an army into Africa, Mundus cum tota sua prole periret, thought that then the world should be at an end. But afterwards the Romans sent an army thither under the conduct of one Mundus, who in battle was slain, together with his sons, by the Africans; and discovered the illusion of the devil.

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Wrapped him in swaddling clothes] This pains she was at (such was her love), though newly delivered, and much weakened thereby. His swaddling clothes were poor and ragged, as may be gathered out of the Greek word here used. Σπαργανοω, of σπαρασσω, to rend.

Laid him in a manger] Non in aureo reclinatorio, saith Ludolphus, not in a stately room, as the Porphyrogeniti in Constantinople; not in the best but basest place of the inn, which is counted the meanest house of a city. Oh humble Saviour, whither wilt thou descend?

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain It is Bucer’s note, that in the Greek it…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And she brought forth her firstborn son,.... At Bethlehem,…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain She laid him in the manger - Perhaps it…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. Laid him in a manger] Wetstein has…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Her first-born son - Whether Mary had any other…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain In a manger within a stable, or place where…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain first-born--So Mat 1:25; yet the law, in speaking of…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Her first born—See note on Mat_1:25. Van Oosterzee…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. firstborn] The word has no bearing on the…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) She brought forth her first-born son.—On the question…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Her firstborn Son. This expression has no real bearing…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Her first-born Son
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 7. Her first-born son. This implies that Mary was…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 2:7 wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth: This…

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