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"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment, with a promise." The Good News: It is a commandment from God to honor ...
The Gospel of Luke notes that, as a child, Jesus was obedient to his earthly parents. For a child in the home, the commandment to honour parents is comprehensive, excluding immoral actions. Grown children, while not obligated to obedience in the same way, should continue to afford respect for parental wishes, advice and teaching. [43] "Filial ...
And thus ye have made the commandment of God concerning the support of parents by their children vain through your traditions, obeying the dictates of avarice." [ 4 ] Augustine : " Christ here clearly shows both that that law which the heretic blasphemes is God’s law, and that the Jews had their traditions foreign to the prophetical and ...
Christ blessing the Children by Lucas Cranach the Younger. The Kingdom of Heaven is compared to little children at other places in the New Testament: Matthew 19:13–15. Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
As reported in Luke 2:21, the child was named eight days after his birth at the time of the circumcision. The phrase "he was called" in the original Greek (ἐκλήθη) is in the passive voice. However, in Matthew 1:21 Joseph is told that he will do the naming, and Joseph names Jesus in verse 25, in obedience to the command of the angel. [3]
The Sunday School Teacher of 1881 suggests that a valuable lesson may be learned in reflecting on "how, at the bidding of His parents, [Jesus] immediately accompanied them home, setting in His obedience a lovely example to all children". [10] Pope John Paul II refers to the story as "joy mixed with drama". Jesus "appears in his divine wisdom as ...