Matthew 1:19 Parallel Translations

Her husband Joseph was an honorable man and did not want to disgrace her publicly. So he decided to break the marriage agreement with her secretly.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.

ASV:

And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

BBE:

And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.

DBY:

But Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and unwilling to expose her publicly, purposed to have put her away secretly;

ERV:

And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

WEY:

But Joseph her husband, being a kind-hearted man and unwilling publicly to disgrace her, had determined to release her privately from the betrothal.

WBS:

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, purposed to put her away privately.

WEB:

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

YLT:

and Joseph her husband being righteous, and not willing to make her an example, did wish privately to send her away.

Matthew 1:19 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 22:20 "But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,

Deuteronomy 24:1 "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house,

John 8:4 they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.

John 8:5 "Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?" (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

1:19 Joseph her husband. Betrothal, according to the law (De 22:23,24), made him her husband before marriage.
A just [man]. Righteous and humane. To put her away publicly was to expose her to the penalty of death. Probably she had made her defense to him, but her story was so wonderful that he was in doubt.
Privily. Give her a bill of divorce. See De 24:1.

WES:

1:19 A just man - A strict observer of the law: therefore not thinking it right to keep her.

MHC:

1:18-25 Let us look to the circumstances under which the Son of God entered into this lower world, till we learn to despise the vain honours of this world, when compared with piety and holiness. The mystery of Christ's becoming man is to be adored, not curiously inquired into. It was so ordered that Christ should partake of our nature, yet that he should be pure from the defilement of original sin, which has been communicated to all the race of Adam. Observe, it is the thoughtful, not the unthinking, whom God will guide. God's time to come with instruction to his people, is when they are at a loss. Divine comforts most delight the soul when under the pressure of perplexed thoughts. Joseph is told that Mary should bring forth the Saviour of the world. He was to call his name Jesus, a Saviour. Jesus is the same name with Joshua. And the reason of that name is clear, for those whom Christ saves, he saves from their sins; from the guilt of sin by the merit of his death, and from the power of sin by the Spirit of his grace. In saving them from sin, he saves them from wrath and the curse, and all misery, here and hereafter. Christ came to save his people, not in their sins, but from their sins; and so to redeem them from among men, to himself, who is separate from sinners. Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, speedily, without delay, and cheerfully, without dispute. By applying the general rules of the written word, we should in all the steps of our lives, particularly the great turns of them, take direction from God, and we shall find this safe and comfortable.

CONC:

Betrothal Desiring Determined Disgrace Divorce Example Expose Husband Intended Joseph Kind-hearted Mind Minded Planned Privately Privily Public Publick Publicly Purposed Quietly Release Resolved Righteous Secretly Shame Unwilling Upright Wanting Willing Wish

Determined Disgrace Divorce Example Husband Intended Joseph Kind-Hearted Mind Minded Planned Privately Privily Public Publicly Purposed Quietly Release Resolved Righteous Secretly Shame Unwilling Upright Wanting Willing

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