Matthew 1:25 Commentary and Bible Study

The eternal Son of God comes into the world and is born, as Micah had foretold, in Bethlehem. Luke gives us the details of how this came to be, but Matthew’s narrative takes us straight to Bethlehem without this explanation. The two agree perfectly together.Christ is born and the wonder of the incarnation comes about. The Son of God comes as a helpless baby into the world, but God is overseeing all things, so that it is written ‘he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. ¹² They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone’ (Psalm 91:11-12).In obedience to the Lord, Joseph named the child Jesus and so showed that he believed all that the angel had said to him. He too, like Mary, must have watched closely and with wonder to see how this child would develop. The name Jesus means ‘Jehovah is salvation’, the name God gave to him, ‘for’, as Gabriel had said, ‘he shall save his people from their sins’ (verse 21).