Who
Son of Jared and father of Methuselah, of whom Genesis says only that he “walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24). Sirach calls him “an example of repentance to all generations” (Sirach 44:16) and says no one on earth was created like him (Sirach 49:14), and Hebrews says that “By faith Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death” (Hebrews 11:5). Jude quotes a prophecy under his name (Jude 1:14–15). Many of the Fathers held that Enoch and Elijah, both taken up alive, would return before the end as witnesses (compare Revelation 11:3).
Key verses
- Genesis 5:18
Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.
- Genesis 5:21
Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.
- Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
- 1 Chronicles 1:3
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
- Sirach 44:16
Enoch pleased the Lord, and was taken up, an example of repentance to all generations.
- Sirach 49:14
No man was created upon the earth like Enoch, for he was taken up from the earth.
- Luke 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
- Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
- Jude 1:14
About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
Where the Bible names him
Named 12 times in 6 books.
- ✓ In the deuterocanon, which the verse index does not cover: found in the text and checked by hand.
Verse index: TIPNR, STEPBible.org (Tyndale House), CC BY 4.0.
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Comments on the verses that name him (8 of 63).
- Origen on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
Having related our Lord’s baptism, he next enters upon the generation of the Lord, not bringing it down from the higher to the lower, but beginning with Christ, he carries it up to God Himself. Hence he says, And…
- Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
We must therefore consider who He was who was baptized, and by whom and when: seeing He was pure, baptized by John, and at a time when His miracles had begun, that we might thence derive the lesson of purifying…
- John Chrysostom on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
Or, He waited accomplishing the whole law until that age which takes in every sin, that none might say that He abrogated the law because He was not able to fulfil it.
- A Greek expositor on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
For this reason also He came at thirty years to be baptized, to shew that spiritual regeneration makes men perfect as far as regards their spiritual life.
- Bede on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
The thrice ten years also which our Saviour had passed when He was baptized might intimate also the mystery of our baptism, because of the faith in the Trinity, and the obedience to the Decalogue.
- Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 3:23–38 (2)Catena Aurea on Luke
Still must a child be baptized if necessity demands it. For it is better to be insensibly sanctified, than to pass from this life unsealed. But you will say, Christ is baptized at thirty years old, and He was God,…
- Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
Although in truth Christ had no father according to the flesh, yet some fancied he had a father. Hence it follows, As was supposed the son of Joseph.
- Ambrose of Milan on Luke 3:23–38Catena Aurea on Luke
Rightly as was supposed, since in reality He was not, but was supposed to be so, because Mary who was espoused to Joseph was His mother. But we might doubt why the descent of Joseph is described rather than that of…