路加福音 2:4

4 約 瑟 也 從 加 利 利 的 拿 撒 勒 城 上 猶 太 去 ， 到 了 大 衛 的 城 ， 名 叫 伯 利 恆 ， 因 他 本 是 大 衛 一 族 一 家 的 人 ，

路加福音 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 2:4

And Joseph also went up from Galilee
Where he now lived, and worked at the trade of a carpenter; having for some reasons, and by one providence or another, removed hither from his native place:

out of the city of Nazareth;
which was in Galilee, where he and Mary lived; and where he had espoused her, and she had conceived of the Holy Ghost:

into Judea;
which lay higher than Galilee, and therefore he is said to go up to it:

unto the city of David;
not what was built by him, but where he was born and lived; see ( 1 Samuel 17:12 ) .

which is called Bethlehem:
the place where, according to ( Micah 5:2 ) the Messiah was to be born, and was born; and which signifies "the house of bread": a very fit place for Christ, the bread which came down from heaven, and gives life to the world, to appear first in. This place was, as a Jewish chronologer says ^F7, a "parsa" and half, or six miles from Jerusalem; though another of their writers, an historian and traveller ^F8, says, it was two "parsas", or eight miles; but Justin Martyr ^F9 says, it was but thirty five furlongs distant from it, which is not five miles; hither Joseph came from Galilee,

because he was of the house and lineage of David;
he was of his family, and lineally descended from him, though he was so poor and mean; and this is the reason of his coming to Bethlehem, David's city.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Ganz. Tzemach David, par. 2. fol. 14. 2.
F8 R. Benjamin Itin. p. 47.
F9 Apolog. 2. p. 75.

路加福音 2:4 In-Context

2 這 是 居 里 扭 作 敘 利 亞 巡 撫 的 時 候 ， 頭 一 次 行 報 名 上 冊 的 事 。

3 眾 人 各 歸 各 城 ， 報 名 上 冊 。

4 約 瑟 也 從 加 利 利 的 拿 撒 勒 城 上 猶 太 去 ， 到 了 大 衛 的 城 ， 名 叫 伯 利 恆 ， 因 他 本 是 大 衛 一 族 一 家 的 人 ，

5 要 和 他 所 聘 之 妻 馬 利 亞 一 同 報 名 上 冊 。 那 時 馬 利 亞 的 身 孕 已 經 重 了 。

6 他 們 在 那 裡 的 時 候 ， 馬 利 亞 的 產 期 到 了 ，