Luke Chapter 2 verse 39 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 2:39

And when they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
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BBE Luke 2:39

And when they had done all the things which were ordered by the law of the Lord, they went back to Galilee, to Nazareth, the town where they were living.
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DARBY Luke 2:39

And when they had completed all things according to the law of [the] Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own city Nazareth.
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KJV Luke 2:39

And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
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WEB Luke 2:39

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
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YLT Luke 2:39

And when they finished all things, according to the Law of the Lord, they turned back to Galilee, to their city Nazareth;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 39. - And when they had performed all things according to the Law of the Lord. Another note, which tells us of the rigid obedience which Mary and Joseph paid to the Law of Israel, under which they lived. Marcion, the famous Gnostic heretic (second century), who adopted this Gospel of St. Luke, to the exclusion of the other three, as the authoritative Gospel for his sect (the Marcionites), omitted, however, all these passages of St. Luke's narrative in which the old Mosaic Law was spoken of with reverence. They returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. To complete the story of our Lord's early life, we must insert from St. Matthew, before this return to Nazareth, the visit of the Magi, and the flight to and return from Egypt. It is probable - even if the Gospel of St. Matthew, as we have it, was not then written - that these details, the visit of the Magi and the flight into Egypt, were facts already well known to those whom this Gospel was especially designed to instruct.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(39) They returned into Galilee.--Filling up the narrative from St. Matthew, we have to insert after the Presentation, the visit of the Magi, the massacre of the Infants, and the flight into Egypt. It seems probable that St. Luke was not acquainted with St. Matthew's narrative, nor St. Matthew with St. Luke's. Each wrote from what he heard, or found in previous existing narratives, more or less incomplete, and hence cannot readily be brought into harmony with the other. Here the parents return to Nazareth as their own city. In St. Matthew the return appears to be determined by their fears of Archelaus. It is possible that, though previously domiciled at Nazareth, they may have thought of settling at Bethlehem, and were deterred from doing so by the cruelty of Herod and his son.