| Luke 2:2 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) |
| ASV: | This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. |
| BBE: | This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria. |
| DBY: | The census itself first took place when Cyrenius had the government of Syria. |
| ERV: | This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. |
| WEY: | It was the first registration made during the governorship of Quirinius in Syria; |
| WBS: | (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) |
| WEB: | This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. |
| YLT: | this enrolment first came to pass when Cyrenius was governor of Syria -- |
| Luke 2:2 Cross References |
| XREF: | Matthew 4:24 The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| PNT: | 2:2 This taxing was first made, etc. This statement has caused some difficulty. Luke seems to affirm that the enrollment took place the year Jesus was born, but while Cyrenius was governor of Syria. Now Cyrenius was governor of Syria from A.D. 6 to A.D. 11 There are two ways of settling the apparent difficulty: (1) Augustus Caesar, incensed at Herod, ordered an enrollment for taxation of the Jews the year of the birth of Jesus. It was carried out in all probability by Cyrenius. The intercession of Herod's minister, Nicolas, averted the displeasure of Augustus and the taxation did not take place until Cyrenius was governor of Syria, after Archelaus, son of Herod, was deposed. These facts we learn from Josephus, and they remove the apparent discrepancy. But (2) A. W. Zumpt, of Berlin, followed by Alford and Schaff, make it highly probable that Cyrenius was governor of Syria twice, the first time from B.C. 4 to B.C. 1 I have not space for the argument which seems conclusive. But in B.C. 4 Jesus was born. Ancient writers, Christians as well as pagan opposers, state that Jesus was born while Cyrenius was governor of Syria. |
| WES: | 2:2 When Cyrenius was governor of Syria - When Publius Sulpicius Quirinus governed the province of Syria, in which Judea was then included. |
| MHC: | 2:1-7 The fulness of time was now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law. The circumstances of his birth were very mean. Christ was born at an inn; he came into the world to sojourn here for awhile, as at an inn, and to teach us to do likewise. We are become by sin like an outcast infant, helpless and forlorn; and such a one was Christ. He well knew how unwilling we are to be meanly lodged, clothed, or fed; how we desire to have our children decorated and indulged; how apt the poor are to envy the rich, and how prone the rich to disdain the poor. But when we by faith view the Son of God being made man and lying in a manger, our vanity, ambition, and envy are checked. We cannot, with this object rightly before us, seek great things for ourselves or our children. |
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