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Mateus 2:1

Tendo nascido Jesus em Belém da Judéia, nos dias do rei Herodes, chegaram magos do oriente a Jerusalém, dizendo:

(uma) Belém; Vejo entrada for Matt. 2:5.

(b) Herodes o rei. Havia muitos Herodes, mas esse Herodes era Herodes, o Grande (37–4 aC), um dos políticos mais implacáveis e ambiciosos da Bíblia. Governador da Galiléia e então rei da Judéia, Herodes teve dez esposas, muitos filhos e toda a paranóia de estar cercado por pessoas que reivindicam seu trono.

Governar os judeus sempre seria um negócio complicado para Herodes, pois acreditava-se que ele era um idumeu, descendente de Esaú. No entanto, ele impressionou os judeus com sua indústria e conhecimento político. Ele construiu fortalezas, palácios, aquedutos e completou a construção do enorme complexo do templo em Jerusalém – verdadeiramente uma das maravilhas arquitetônicas do primeiro século. Ele impediu os romanos de invadir o templo, mas em seus últimos anos ele se tornou cada vez mais cruel.

(c) Os magos ou sábios estão entre os homens mais misteriosos da história. Não sabemos quase nada sobre eles, exceto que vieram do leste e estudaram as estrelas. Quer fossem astrólogos persas, astrônomos chineses ou qualquer outra coisa, sabemos que Deus lhes transmitiu milagrosamente as boas novas de seu Filho. Sua resposta reverente e alegre a Jesus tem sido imitada por homens e mulheres sábios desde então.

Mateus 2:2

“Onde está Aquele que nasceu Rei dos Judeus? Pois vimos a sua estrela no oriente e viemos adorá-lo”.

(uma) Rei dos judeus. 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) Sua estrela. A Estrela de Belém era um cometa, uma supernova ou uma conjunção de planetas? Foi um anjo ou uma licença literária? Ninguém sabe, mas essas são apenas algumas das explicações que vêm sendo exploradas por cientistas e artistas. O que a maioria dos cristãos pode concordar é que a estrela era um sinal milagroso que trouxe os magos até a porta do rei recém-nascido.

Matthew 2:3

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

Herod the king; see entrada 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.

(uma) 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; Vejo entrada for Matt. 5:20.

Mateus 2:5

Disseram-lhe: “Em Belém da Judéia; pois isto é o que foi escrito pelo profeta:

(uma) Belém. 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) O profeta. 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.

(uma) Herod; Vejo entrada for Matt. 2:1.

(b) Os magos; Vejo entrada for Matt. 2:1.

Mateus 2:11

Entrando na casa, viram o Menino com Maria, sua mãe; e prostraram-se por terra e O adoraram. Então, abrindo seus tesouros, eles Lhe apresentaram presentes de ouro, incenso e mirra.

(uma) Maria Sua mãe. Todos os quatro escritores dos Evangelhos referem-se a Maria como a mãe de Jesus. Ver entrada for Matt. 1:18.

(b) Presentes. 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.”

(uma) 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; see entrada for Matt. 1:16.

Mateus 2:16

Então, quando Herodes viu que tinha sido enganado pelos magos, enfureceu-se e mandou matar todos os meninos que havia em Belém e toda a sua vizinhança, de dois anos para baixo, segundo o tempo que havia determinado. dos magos.

(uma) Os magos; Vejo entrada for Matt. 2:1.

(b) Belém; Vejo entrada for Matt. 2:5.

(c) Dois anos de idade. Jesus nasceu durante os anos finais do reinado de Herodes, o Grande. Herodes provavelmente morreu em 4 aC, mas isso está longe de ser certo. Há também algum debate se os magos visitaram Jesus quando ele era recém-nascido ou criança. Como Herodes ordenou o assassinato de meninos de 2 anos ou menos, é possível que Jesus não fosse mais um recém-nascido quando os magos o visitaram.

Mateus 2:17

Então se cumpriu o que havia sido dito pelo profeta 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.

Mateus 2:22

Mas quando soube que Arquelau reinava na Judéia em lugar de seu pai Herodes, teve medo de ir para lá. Então, avisado por Deus em sonho, partiu para as regiões da Galiléia,

(uma) Arquelau 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 entrada 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) Ele estava com medo de ir para lá. 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.

Mateus 2:23

e veio morar numa cidade chamada Nazaré. Isso foi para cumprir o que foi dito pelos profetas: “Ele será chamado Nazareno”.

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

(b) Um Nazareno 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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