Matthew 1:25
From Textus Receptus
ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ 1:25 καὶ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκεν αὐτὴν, ἕως οὗ ἔτεκεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς τὸν πρωτότοκον• καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἸΗΣΟΥN•
(Textus Receptus, Theodore Beza, 1598)
Matthew 1:25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
(King James Version, Pure Cambridge Edition)
Matthew 1:25 and did not know her until she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name JESUS.
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Commentary
Matthew 1:25 is the twenty-fifth and last verse of the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Joseph has awakened from a dream in which an angel gave him instructions about the birth of Jesus. He has taken Mary into his home, completing their marriage, and this verse explains what occurs once the couples are united.
This passage is the centre of much controversy in the debate over the perpetual virginity of Mary. To many Protestants this verse is one of the central reasons for rejecting the Perpetual Virginity. The author of Matthew only states that sexual relations did not occur prior to the birth of Jesus, implying that they occurred afterwards. Those who support the Perpetual Virginity argue that the passage is far vaguer in the original Greek than it is in English. In English a negation until implies that the event in question did happen afterwards.
Greek
Textus Receptus
See Also Matthew 1:25 Complutensian Polyglot 1514
Desiderius Erasmus
- 1516 (Erasmus 1st Novum Instrumentum omne)
- 1519 (Erasmus 2nd)
- 1522 (Erasmus 3rd Novum Testamentum omne)
- 1527 (Erasmus 4th)
- 1535 (Erasmus 5th)
Colinæus
- 1534 (Colinæus)
Stephanus (Robert Estienne)
- 1546 (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 1st)
- 1549 (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 2nd)
- 1550 καὶ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκεν αὐτὴν ἕως οὗ ἔτεκεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς τὸν πρωτότοκον· καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦν (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 3rd - Editio Regia)
- 1551 (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 4th)
Theodore Beza
- 1565 (Beza 1st)
- 1565 (Beza Octavo 1st)
- 1567 (Beza Octavo 2nd)
- 1580 (Beza Octavo 3rd)
- 1582 (Beza 2nd)
- 1589 (Beza 3rd)
- 1590 (Beza Octavo 4th)
- 1598 ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ 1:25 καὶ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκεν αὐτὴν, ἕως οὗ ἔτεκεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς τὸν πρωτότοκον• καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἸΗΣΟΥN• (Beza 4th)
See Also Matthew 1:25 Beza 1598 (Beza)
- 1604 (Beza Octavo 5th)
Elzevir
Scholz
Scrivener
- 1894 (Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ)
Other Greek
- 1857 (Tregelles' Greek New Testament)
- (Tischendorf 8th Ed.)
- 1881 (Westcott & Hort)
- (Greek orthodox Church)
Anglo Saxon Translations
English Translations
- 1535 (Coverdale Bible)
- 1539 (Great Bible First Edition - Miles Coverdale)
- 1540 (Great Bible Second Edition - Miles Coverdale)
- 1560 (Geneva Bible) First Edition
- 1568 (Bishop's Bible First Edition
- 1745 (Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament)
- 1770 (Worsley Version by John Worsley)
- 1790 (Wesley Version by John Wesley)
- 1795 (A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by Thomas Haweis)
- 1833 (Webster Version - by Noah Webster)
- 1835 (Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)
- 1850 (King James Version by Committee)
- 1851 (Murdock Translation)
- 1858 (The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by Leicester Sawyer)
- 1865 (The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1865 by American Bible Union)
- 1869 (Noyes Translation by George Noyes)
- 1885 (Revised Version also called English Revised Version - Charles Ellicott editor)
- 1890 (Darby Version 1890 by John Darby)
- 1902 (The Emphasised Bible Rotherham Version)
- 1902 (Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by William Godbey)
- 1904 (The New Testament: Revised and Translated by Adolphus Worrell)
- 1904 (Twentieth Century New Testament by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs)
- 1911 (Syrus Scofield)
- 1912 The Genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. (Weymouth New Testament)
- 1918 (The New Testament Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript by Henry Anderson)
- 1923 (Edgar Goodspeed)
- 1995 (New American Standard Bible) NASB (©1995)
- (BBE)
- (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
- (21st Century King James Version)
- (Common English Bible)
- (GOD’S WORD Translation)
- (Contemporary English Version)
- (New Living Translation)
- (Amplified Bible)
- (The Message)
- (New International Reader's Version)
- (Wycliffe New Testament)
Other Greek
- 1869 καὶ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκεν αὐτὴν ἕως οὗ ἔτεκεν υἱόν· καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦν. Tischendorf 8th Edition
- 1881 καὶ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκεν αὐτὴν ἕως [οὗ] ἔτεκεν υἱόν· καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦν. Westcott and Hort
Modern Versions
Modern versions bring confusion about Mary being a Virgin:
If it is only 'a son' rather than a 'firstborn son' Mary may have had other children before Jesus to someone else. So the Textus Receptus solves two errors by stating the fact that Jesus was Mary's firstborn:
- 1) a firstborn implys that there was a secondborn later on (otherwise it would say 'only begotten')
- 2) A firstborn implys that Mary had previously had no other children.
Firstborn makes it impossible for these to heretical doctrines to survive.
See Also Psalm 69:8, Matthew 12:46; 13:55; Mark 3:31, 6:3; John 2:12; 7:3,5; 1 Corinthians 9:5, Galatians 1:19.
The Greek - πρωτότοκον (firstborn) appears in the vast majority of Manuscripts exept for 2 Papyrus (B and Aleph) and 3 minuscule mss.
