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LUKE 2:40 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 2:39Luke 2:41
“And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.”
And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him — the growth summary parallels John's growth summary (1:80) but adds two elements specific to Jesus: filled with wisdom (plēroumenon sophia) and the grace of God on him (charis theou ēn ep' auto). Wisdom is the divinely-given capacity for understanding and discernment — its presence in Jesus' childhood anticipates the temple dialogue of the following pericope. The grace of God communicates the Father's favor resting on the incarnate Son.

Church Fathers on Luke 2:40

Luke has omitted in this place what he knew to have been sufficiently set forth by Matthew, that the Lord after this, for fear that He should be discovered and put to death by Herod, was carried by His parents into Egypt, and at Herod’s death, having at length returned to Galilee, came to dwell in His own city Nazareth. For the Evangelists individually are wont to omit certain things which they either know to have been, or in the Spirit foresee will be, related by others, so…

Bede · 8th century

Bethlehem was indeed their city, their paternal city, Nazareth the place of their abode.

Theophylact · 11th century

Perhaps it may strike you as strange that Matthew should say that His parents went with the young Child into Galilee because they were unwilling to go to Judea for fear of Archelaus, when they seem to have gone into Galilee rather because their city was Nazareth in Galilee, as Luke in this place explains it. But we must consider, that when the Angel said in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, Rise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, it was at…

Augustine · 4th century
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