 | Robert Tuck - 1875 - 320 pages
...Lord for this." Learn to copy Jesus. He was once poor, but He was wise. Of Him we read, "And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." He was wise because He was holy ; for you will remember He was called "the Holy Child." Pray... | |
 | Joseph Henry Hutton - Children's sermons - 1875 - 130 pages
...— THE BEGINNING OF THE END. I. HUMAN NATURE. ON ITS BETTER SIDE, IN HARMONY AND PEACE. "And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. " — Luke ii. 52. " But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart,... | |
 | William Henry Brookfield - Sermons, English - 1875 - 358 pages
...fifty-first verse : ' And He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them — and increased in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and man.' What a significant example is here ! The divinest entering into the lowliest conditions, and... | |
 | Henricus Oort - 1876 - 476 pages
...with wisdom ; and the grace of God was with him;" and afterwards he thus describes his youth : " Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and men." Between these notices he inserts an account of an event intended to bring out the great intellectual... | |
 | Henricus Oort, A. Kuenen - Bible - 1876 - 478 pages
...with wisdom ; and the grace of God was with him;" and afterwards he thus describes his youth : " Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and men." Between these notices he inserts an account of an event intended to bring out the great intellectual... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Christian biography - 1877 - 350 pages
...Day succeeded day, weeks went to months, and months into years, and this is all the record: "Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." Looking at Jesus as a mere human being, an historical character, as some do, the one great peculiarity... | |
 | James (st, the apostle, the less.) - 1878 - 132 pages
...We can think of the elder brothers watching with loving admiration the growth of the Holy Child that "increased in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and man." Their training had been after the pattern of that which prevailed in all devout Jewish houses.... | |
 | Thomas Gribble - 1880 - 488 pages
...down to Nazareth, and was subject unto them." Thus passed His boyhood; and as the quiet years went by He " increased in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and man." The words are very significant, and set before our minds something singularly winning and gracious... | |
 | Jews - 1880 - 196 pages
...Nazareth, and was subject unto them ; but His mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." "And so," said Aunt Kate, " though we hardly know anything else about the Lord's childhood, we... | |
 | John Hall - Children - 1881 - 224 pages
...with them and the more troublesome they became. 0 children, it was not so with the gentle Saviour. He " increased in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and man." Begin in your spirit. A proud and ambitious spirit is the sure source of sorrow. Even the honour... | |
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And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. 
