Luke 2:5

To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

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Interpretation

The fulness of time was now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law. The circumstances of his birth were very mean.

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This thought runs through Luke 2:2-6.

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Glossary

Mary Person: Hebrew Miriam. (1. ) The wife of Joseph, the mother of Jesus, called the “Virgin Mary,” though never so designated in Scripture ( Matt. 2:11 ; Acts 1:14 ). Little is known of her personal history.