Estudo de Lucas 2:51 – Comentado e Explicado

Em seguida, desceu com eles a Nazaré e lhes era submisso. Sua mãe guardava todas estas coisas no seu coração.
Lucas 2:51

Comentário de Albert Barnes

Desceu com eles – Desceu de Jerusalém, que estava em uma região alta e montanhosa.

Estava sujeito a eles – cumpria o dever de uma criança fiel e obediente, e não era improvável que estivesse envolvido no ofício de José – o de carpinteiro. Todo judeu era obrigado a aprender algum ofício, e há todas as razões para pensar que nosso Salvador seguiu o de seu pai de renome. E com isso aprendemos:

1. Que a obediência aos pais é um dever. Jesus deu um exemplo nisso que todas as crianças devem seguir. Embora ele fosse o Filho de Deus, e em ocasiões apropriadas estivesse envolvido na grande obra da redenção, ele também era o “filho de Maria”, e amava e obedecia à mãe, e estava “sujeito” a ela.

2. Não é desonroso ser mecânico ou ser criado em um emprego obscuro. Jesus conferiu honra à indústria virtuosa, e nenhum homem deve se envergonhar de pais diligentes, embora pobres, ou de uma condição de vida que esteja longe de ser fácil e rica. A indústria é honrosa e a pobreza virtuosa não deve ser encarada como uma questão de reprovação. A única coisa de que se envergonhar, em relação a esse assunto, é quando as pessoas ficam ociosas ou quando as crianças têm orgulho demais de ouvir ou falar da ocupação de seus pais ou de seguir a mesma ocupação.

Comentário de Joseph Benson

Luke 2:51 . And he went down with them to Nazareth — That he might not seem to encourage disobedience in children, by withdrawing himself in that weak age from under the government of his parents, he very willingly retired with them into the obscure city of Nazareth, where for many years he was, as it were, buried alive. Doubtless he came up to Jerusalem to worship at the feast three times a year: but whether he ever went again into the temple to dispute with the doctors there, we are not told; it is, however, not improbable that he might. But we learn here, what it is more important that all children should know, namely, that he was subject to his parents. Though his parents were poor and mean, though his father, so called, was only his supposed father; yet he was subject to them; though he was strong in spirit and filled with wisdom, nay, though he was in a peculiar and proper sense the Son of God most high, yet he was subject to his human parents: how then will they answer it to God who, though ignorant, foolish, weak, and wretched, yet are disobedient to their parents? But his mother kept all these sayings in her heart — She was deeply impressed with them, and thought much upon them, though she did not perfectly understand them. Doubtless she expected that hereafter they would be explained to her, and she should not only fully comprehend their meaning, but derive important instruction from them.

Comentário de E.W. Bullinger

sujeito. Veja a nota em Lucas 2:42 .

Comentário de Adam Clarke

Was subject unto them – Behaved towards them with all dutiful submission. Probably his working with his hands at his reputed father’s business, is here also implied: see on Luke 2:41 ; (Nota). No child among the Jews was ever brought up in idleness. Is not this the carpenter? was a saying of those Jews who appear to have had a proper knowledge of his employment while in Joseph’s house. See the note on Matthew 13:55 .

Comentário de Thomas Coke

Lucas 2:51 . Mas sua mãe – e sua mãe.