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Matthæus 2:1

Men efter at Jesus var blevet født i Betlehem i Judæa i kong Herodes' dage, ankom vismænd fra øst til Jerusalem og sagde:

(a) Betlehem; se indgang for Matt. 2:5.

(b) Kong Herodes. Der var mange Herodes, men denne Herodes var Herodes den Store (37–4 f.Kr.), en af de mest hensynsløse og ambitiøse politikere i Bibelen. Guvernør i Galilæa og dengang konge af Judæa, Herodes havde ti hustruer, masser af sønner og al den paranoia, der kommer af at være omgivet af mennesker med krav på din trone.

At regere over jøderne ville altid være en vanskelig sag for Herodes, da han blev anset for at være en Idumæer, en efterkommer af Esau. Alligevel imponerede han jøderne med sin industri og politiske sans. Han byggede fæstninger, paladser, akvædukter, og han afsluttede opførelsen af det massive tempelkompleks i Jerusalem - virkelig et af det første århundredes arkitektoniske vidundere. Han forhindrede romerne i at plyndre templet, men i sine senere år blev han mere og mere grusom.

(c) Magi eller vise mænd er blandt de mest mystiske mænd i historien. Vi ved næsten intet om dem, bortset fra at de kom fra øst og de studerede stjernerne. Uanset om de var persiske astrologer, kinesiske astronomer eller noget andet, ved vi at Gud på mirakuløs vis overbragte dem den gode nyhed om sin søn. Deres ærbødige og glædelige svar på Jesus er blevet efterlignet af vise mænd og kvinder lige siden.

Matthæus 2:2

"Hvor er han, som er blevet født som konge af jøderne? For vi så hans stjerne i øst og er kommet for at tilbede ham."

(a) jødernes konge. The angel Gabriel may have been the first New Testament figure to recognize Jesus as a king (Luke 1:32–33), but the magi were a close second. Others who recognized Jesus as a king included the disciples (Luke 19:38), the palm-waving people of Jerusalem (John 12:13), Paul and Silas (Acts 17:7), and the seventh angel (Rev. 11:15).

During his earthly ministry, Jesus rarely referred to himself in such royal terms (Matt. 21:5, 25:34, Mark 15:2, Luke 22:29-30, 23:3, John 18:36-37).

(b) Hans stjerne. Var Betlehemsstjernen en komet, en supernova eller en sammensætning af planeter? Var det en engel eller et stykke litterær licens? Ingen ved det, men dette er blot nogle af de forklaringer, der er blevet udforsket af videnskabsmænd og kunstnere. Hvad de fleste kristne kan blive enige om var, at stjernen var et mirakuløst tegn, der bragte de vise mænd til selve døren til den nyfødte konge.

Matthew 2:3

When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Herod the king; se indgang for Matt. 2:1.

Matthew 2:4

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.

(a) The chief priests were likely the heads of the various priestly lines established by King David (1 Chr. 23:6–24, 2 Chr. 8:14). The chief priests served on the ruling Council or Sanhedrin and were responsible for overseeing the temple (Matt. 26:59, Mark 14:55, Luke 22:66, Acts 22:30). The high priests were selected from among their number.

The chief priests conspired to murder Jesus (Mark 14:1, Luke 19:47, 22:4), had him arrested (Luke 22:52, John 18:3, 35), and bayed for his crucifixion (John 19:6, 15). Later they furnished Saul with the authority to imprison believers (Acts 26:10–12).

(b) Scribes; se indgang for Matt. 5:20.

Matthæus 2:5

De sagde til ham: "I Betlehem i Judæa; thi dette er, hvad der er skrevet af profeten:

(a) Betlehem. The village of Bethlehem is known as the Cradle of Christianity because Jesus was born there (Matt. 2:1). Bethlehem was also the home of King David (1 Sam 16:1, 17:15) and Naomi, the mother-in-law of Ruth (Ruth 1:1, 19).

(b) Written. Since the time of Moses, the Jews placed enormous significance on the written words of the law, the psalms and the prophets (e.g., Jos. 1:8, 8:31). This reliance on the written word was carried over into the New Testament by the Gospel writers (e.g., Matt. 2:5, Mark 1:2, Luke 3:4, John 6:31), Peter (Acts 1:20, 1 Pet. 1:16), Stephen (Acts 7:42), James (Acts 15:15) and Jesus himself (Matt. 4:4, 7, 10). But no one quoted the old scriptures more than Paul (Acts 13:33, 23:5, Rom. 1:17, 3:4, 10, 4:17, 8:36, 9:13, 33, 10:15, 11:8, 26, 12:19, 14:11, 15:3, 9, 21, 1 Cor. 1:19, 31, 2:9, 3:19, 9:9–10, 10:7, 14:21, 15:45, 2 Cor. 8:15, 9:9, Gal. 3:10, 13, 4:22, 27, Heb. 10:7). The devil also quoted scripture on occasion (Matt. 4:6).

(c) Profeten. The religious leaders understood that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem in the district of Ephrathah because of a 700-year-old prophecy from Micah. “Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are one of the smallest towns in Judah, but out of you I will bring a ruler for Israel, whose family line goes back to ancient times” (Mic. 5:2).

Matthew 2:7

Then Herod secretly called the magi and determined from them the exact time the star appeared.

(a) Herodes; se indgang for Matt. 2:1.

(b) Magierne; se indgang for Matt. 2:1.

Matthæus 2:11

Efter at de var kommet ind i huset, så de barnet med Maria, hans mor; og de faldt til jorden og tilbad ham. Så åbnede de deres skatte og gav ham gaver af guld, røgelse og myrra.

(a) Maria hans mor. Alle fire evangelieskribenter omtaler Maria som Jesu mor. Se indgang for Matt. 1:18.

(b) Gaver. When Jesus was born, Joseph and Mary were too poor to bring anything but a poor man’s offering to the temple (Luke 2:24). But they did not remain poor for long. The lavish gifts of the wise men would have supported them for years easily providing for their flight to and from Egypt.

Matthew 2:13

Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him.”

(a) Angel of the Lord. Angels are spiritual beings whose home is in heaven (Mark 12:25). The original word for angel (aggelos) means “messenger” so an angel of the Lord is a messenger sent by the Lord. This was the second of three occasions that an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph (Matt. 1:20, 2:19).

(b) Joseph; se indgang for Matt. 1:16.

Matthæus 2:16

Da Herodes så, at han var blevet narret af vismændene, blev han meget vred og sendte og dræbte alle drengebørn, som var i Betlehem og hele dens omegn, fra to år og derunder, efter den tid, han havde fastsat. fra magi.

(a) Magierne; se indgang for Matt. 2:1.

(b) Betlehem; se indgang for Matt. 2:5.

(c) To år gammel. Jesus blev født i de sidste år af Herodes den Stores regeringstid. Herodes døde sandsynligvis i 4 f.Kr., men det er langt fra sikkert. Der er også nogen diskussion om, hvorvidt de vise mænd besøgte Jesus, da han var nyfødt eller et spædbarn. Da Herodes beordrede drabet på drenge på 2 år og derunder, er det muligt, at Jesus ikke længere var nyfødt, da magierne besøgte ham.

Matthæus 2:17

Så gik det i opfyldelse, hvad der var blevet talt gennem profeten Jeremias:

Jeremias spoke of “Rachel weeping for her children” because her children were no more (Jer. 31:15). Rachel is another name for Bethlehem, the burial site of Jacob’s beloved wife Rachel (Gen. 35:19). The children who are no more are the infants slaughtered by Herod.

Matthew 2:22

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Then after being warned by God in a dream, he left for the regions of Galilee,

(a) Archelaus. Herod Archelaus, the son of Herod the Great, was appointed ethnarch of Judea by Caesar Augustus. An ethnarch is a ruler of an ethnic group. Archelaus ruled, under the supervision of Rome, the tetrarchy of Samaria, Judea and Idumea. After ten years he was deposed and banished to Gaul, and his tetrarchy became the Roman province of Judaea.

Prior to being crowned, Archelaus ordered the slaughter of 3,000 Zealots and seditionist Jews at the temple. Consequently, when Archelaus sailed to Rome to have his coronation confirmed, his half-brother Antipas, along with many of the Jews in Rome, opposed him. Jesus seems to have alluded to this event in his parable of the Minas (see indgang for Luke 19:14).

Like his father, Archelaus was a wicked and cruel ruler. He ruled from Jericho in Judea which is why Joseph took his young family to the distant city of Nazareth in Galilee.

(b) He was afraid to go there. The Herodians were no friends of Jesus. Herod the Great had tried to murder him (Matt. 2:16) and now Herod’s cruel son Archelaus was on the throne.

(d) Galilee was a region of northern Israel that was administered as part of the Roman province of Judea. Much of Christ’s life and ministry took place in the Galilean cities of Nazareth and Capernaum.

Matthew 2:23

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets: “He shall be called a Nazarene.”

(a) Nazareth was an insignificant town in lower Galilee where Jesus spent his childhood years.

(b) A Nazarene was someone from Nazareth, a Galilean town of little consequence, and another word for branch or root. In Judea, Jesus was known as the Nazarene (Mark 10:47, 14:67, 16:6, Luke 24:19, John 18:5, 7, 19:19, Acts 2:22, 3:6, 4:10, 6:14). Jesus referred to himself as the Nazarene (Acts 22:8).

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