Luke 2:39
And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
KJV
Καὶ ὡς ἐτέλεσαν πάντα κατὰ τὸν νόμον κυρίου, ἐπέστρεψαν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν εἰς πόλιν ἑαυτῶν Ναζαρέθ.
Greek NT
Et ut perfecerunt omnia secundum legem Domini, reversi sunt in Galilæam in civitatem suam Nazareth.
Vulgate
And when they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
ASV
And after they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their city Nazareth.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- πάντα — SBLGNT
- πάντα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἅπαντα — Robinson-Pierpont
- ἐπέστρεψαν — SBLGNT
- ἐπέστρεψαν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ὑπέστρεψαν — Robinson-Pierpont
- εἰς — SBLGNT
- εἰς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + τὴν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§529The presentation of Jesus in the temple shows him to be the firstborn Son who belongs to the Lord.216 With Simeon and Anna, all Israel awaits its encounter with the Saviour - the name given to this event in the Byzantine tradition. Jesus is recognized as the long-expected Messiah, the "light to the nations" and the "glory of Israel", but also "a sign that is spoken against". th…
§583Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth.349 At the age of twelve he decided to remain in the Temple to remind his parents that he must be about his Father's business.350 He went there each year during his hidden life at least for Passover.351 …
2. Yea, says one, Herod you have full well deprived of excuse, and proved him bloodthirsty; but you have not yet solved the question about the injustice of what took place. For if he did unjustly, wherefore did God permit it? Now, what should we say to this? That which I do not cease to say continually, in church, in the market-place and everywhere; that which I also wish you c…
Cross-references
- Deut 12:32 — What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
- Gal 4:4 — But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
- Isa 53:2 — For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
- John 1:31 — And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
- Luke 2:4 — And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
- Luke 2:21 — And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
- Luke 2:51 — And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
- Matt 2:22 — But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Ga
- Matt 2:22 — But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Ga
- Matt 3:15 — And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.