“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s House? But they did not understand what he was saying to them. Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 123 – Commentary Luke 2:46-48 – Did Jesus learn from humans?
After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 122 – Commentary Luke 2:41-45 – God, please make yourself known to the helpless and hopeless
Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival according to the custom. After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 121 – Commentary Luke 2:39-40 – Do you depend on God?
When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth. And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him. (Luke 2:39-40) In the late 1990’s at a Rebecca St. […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 120 – Commentary Luke 2:36-38 – Does God discriminate?
There was also a prophetess, Anna, from the family of Phanuel in the tribe of Asher. Anna was very old. She had once been married for seven years. Then her husband died, and she was a widow for eighty-four years. Anna never left the Temple but worshiped God, going without food and praying day and […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 119 –Commentary Luke 2:33-35 – Let God’s gift of Jesus make you rise.
The child’s father and mother marveled at what was said about him. Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be […]
Bible Study Devotional -Day 116 – Commentary Luke 2:21-24 – Is it important Mary was poor and obeyed the Law of the Lord?
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel has given him before he was conceived. When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as […]
Bible Study Devotional = Day 114 – Commentary Luke 2:13-15 – What impact did the Glory of God, 100,000,000 angels, and hearing their Messiah was born, have on the shepherds?
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing […]