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Matius 2:1

Selepas Yesus dilahirkan di Betlehem di Yudea pada zaman raja Herodes, datanglah orang majus dari timur ke Yerusalem, berkata,

(a) Betlehem; lihat kemasukan for Matt. 2:5.

(b) Herodes raja. Terdapat ramai Herodes, tetapi Herodes ini ialah Herodes Agung (37–4SM), salah seorang ahli politik yang paling kejam dan bercita-cita tinggi dalam Alkitab. Gabenor Galilee dan kemudian raja Yudea, Herodes mempunyai sepuluh isteri, banyak anak lelaki, dan semua paranoia yang datang daripada dikelilingi oleh orang yang menuntut takhta anda.

Memerintah orang Yahudi sentiasa menjadi urusan yang sukar bagi Herodes kerana dia dipercayai seorang Idumean, keturunan Esau. Namun dia mengagumkan orang Yahudi dengan industri dan kepintaran politiknya. Dia membina kubu, istana, saluran air, dan dia menyelesaikan pembinaan kompleks kuil besar di Yerusalem - benar-benar salah satu keajaiban seni bina pada abad pertama. Dia menghalang orang Rom daripada menyerbu kuil, tetapi pada tahun-tahun kemudian dia menjadi semakin kejam.

(c) Magi atau orang bijak pandai adalah antara orang yang paling misteri dalam sejarah. Kita hampir tidak tahu apa-apa tentang mereka kecuali mereka datang dari timur dan mereka mempelajari bintang-bintang. Sama ada mereka ahli nujum Parsi, ahli astronomi Cina, atau sesuatu yang lain, kita tahu bahawa Tuhan secara mukjizat menyampaikan berita baik tentang Putera-Nya kepada mereka. Tanggapan hormat dan gembira mereka kepada Yesus telah dicontohi oleh lelaki dan wanita bijak sejak itu.

Matius 2:2

“Di manakah Dia yang telah dilahirkan sebagai Raja orang Yahudi? Sebab kami telah melihat bintang-Nya di sebelah timur dan kami datang untuk menyembah Dia."

(a) Raja orang Yahudi. 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) Bintangnya. Adakah Bintang Betlehem itu komet, supernova, atau gabungan planet? Adakah ia malaikat atau sekeping lesen sastera? Tiada siapa yang tahu, tetapi ini hanyalah sebahagian daripada penjelasan yang telah diterokai oleh saintis dan artis. Apa yang boleh dipersetujui oleh kebanyakan orang Kristian ialah bintang itu adalah tanda ajaib yang membawa orang bijak ke pintu raja yang baru lahir.

Matthew 2:3

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

Herod the king; lihat kemasukan 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; lihat kemasukan for Matt. 5:20.

Matius 2:5

Mereka berkata kepadanya, “Di Betlehem di Yudea; kerana inilah yang telah ditulis oleh nabi:

(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) Nabi. 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) Herod; lihat kemasukan for Matt. 2:1.

(b) Majusi; lihat kemasukan for Matt. 2:1.

Matius 2:11

Setelah masuk ke dalam rumah, mereka melihat Anak itu bersama Maria, ibu-Nya; dan mereka sujud ke tanah dan menyembah Dia. Kemudian, membuka harta mereka, mereka mempersembahkan kepada-Nya hadiah emas, kemenyan, dan mur.

(a) Mary ibunya. Keempat-empat penulis Injil merujuk kepada Maria sebagai ibu Yesus. Lihat kemasukan for Matt. 1:18.

(b) Hadiah. 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; lihat kemasukan for Matt. 1:16.

Matius 2:16

Ketika Herodes melihat bahawa dia telah diperdaya oleh orang-orang majus itu, dia menjadi sangat marah, lalu menyuruh membunuh semua kanak-kanak lelaki yang di Betlehem dan di sekelilingnya, dari umur dua tahun ke bawah, menurut masa yang ditentukannya. daripada orang majus.

(a) Majusi; lihat kemasukan for Matt. 2:1.

(b) Betlehem; lihat kemasukan for Matt. 2:5.

(c) Dua tahun. Yesus dilahirkan pada tahun-tahun terakhir pemerintahan Herodes Agung. Herodes mungkin mati pada 4BC, tetapi ini jauh dari pasti. Terdapat juga beberapa perdebatan sama ada orang majus melawat Yesus semasa dia baru lahir atau bayi. Memandangkan Herodes mengarahkan pembunuhan kanak-kanak lelaki berumur 2 tahun ke bawah, ada kemungkinan bahawa Yesus bukan lagi bayi yang baru lahir pada masa orang majus itu melawat.

Matius 2:17

Maka genaplah apa yang difirmankan oleh nabi Yeremia:

Yeremia 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 kemasukan 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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