Making A Way

Coming Lord in Verse 18. we see the.......

King James Version Chapter 1

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

Condition of Mary...”was on the wise”

Commitment of Mary....”espoused to Joseph”

Complication for Mary....”found with child”

Complexity of Love in Verse 19. Joseph is faced with......

King James Version Chapter 1

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.

A Broken Heart “Joseph her husband”

A Broken Hope “publick example”.......The law demanded that an adulteress receive the death penalty (). However, the Jewish community of this time often did not carry out the death penalty; instead, they punished adulteresses through public disgrace.

A Blunt Halt “put her away privily”.......that is, privately by giving her the required writing of divorcement (), in presence of only two or three witnesses, and without cause assigned, instead of having her before a magistrate. That some communication had passed between him and his betrothed, directly or indirectly, on the subject, after she returned from her three months’ visit to Elizabeth, can hardly be doubted. Nor does the purpose to divorce her necessarily imply disbelief, on Joseph’s part, of the explanation given him. Even supposing him to have yielded to it some reverential assent—and the Evangelist seems to convey as much, by ascribing the proposal to screen her to the justice of his character—he might think it altogether unsuitable and incongruous in such circumstances to follow out the marriage.

Cursed Line in Verse 20. The Davidic line is ........

Affirmed “thou son of David” The Davidic line is adequately affirmed in verse 1,6, and 17.

Accursed “fear not to take unto the thy wife” Even though the days may seem dark like in verse 10 where we see the name Manasseh who was one of the most evil wicked kings in the O.T. and in verse 11 where we see the name Jeconiah.

the most evil wicked kings in the O.T. and in verse 11 where we see the name Jeconiah.

Jeconiah was a king upon whom God placed a curse in that none of his children or descendants would ever sit on the throne.

King James Version Chapter 22

Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

descendants would ever sit on the throne.

3. Accomplished: Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,

4. A Cure “that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost” LOOK AT VERSE 21

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Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 2, p. 6). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.