Luke 2:18 (BSB)
And all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.
Commentary on Luke 2:18
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Luke 2:8-20: The meanest circumstances of Christ's humiliation were all along attended with some discoveries of his glory, to balance them, and take off the offence of them; for even when he humbled himself God did in some measure exalt him and give him earnests of his future exaltation.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Luke 2:18: And all they that heard it,.... What the shepherds related of what they had heard from the angel, and from Joseph and Mary, and what they had seen themselves, wondered at those things that were told them by the shepherds: for though they expected the Messiah, and that he would be born at Bethlehem, yet they did not imagine that he would be born of...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Luke 2:18: Verse 18. No entry from BARNES for this verse.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Luke 2:8-20: ANGELIC ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS--THEIR VISIT TO THE NEWBORN BABE. (Luk 2:8-20) abiding in the fields--staying there, probably in huts or tents. watch . . . by night--or, night watches, taking their turn of watching. From about passover time in April until autumn, the flocks pastured constantly in the open fields, the shepherds lodging there all that time.