Decree from Caesar Augustus (δογμα παρα Καισαρος Αυγουστου). Old and common word from δοκεω, to think, form an opinion. No such de…

LUKE

CHAPTER II.

In those days. About the time of the birth of John and of Christ.

A decree. A law commandin…

There went out a decree. The passage that follows has given rise to almost endless discussion. The main facts may be summed up as …

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was …

The Venerable Bede: The Son of God was about to be born in the flesh. Just as His birth from a virgin showed that the grace of …

Luke clearly intends to secure the historical and chronological moorings of Jesus’ birth (approximately 4 B. C.). Ironically, it is precisely this …

Luke relates how it happened that Christ was born in the city of Bethlehem, as His mother was living at a distance from her home when she was appro…

And it came to pass in those days When John the Baptist was born, and Christ was conceived, and his mother pregnant with …

The fullness of time had now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law. The circumstances of his bi…