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Luke 1:26
And in the sixth month the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
And in the sixth month the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Verse 26. _A CITY OF GALILEE_] As Joseph and Mary were both of the family of David, the patrimonial estate of which lay in Bethlehem, it seems as if the family residence should have been in that city...
IN THE SIXTH MONTH - The sixth month after Elizabeth’s conception. A CITY OF GALILEE NAMED NAZARETH - See the notes at Matthew 2:22....
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE Analysis and Annotations I. The Birth and Childhood -- Chapter 1-2:52 CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Introduction. (Luke 1:1)_ 2. Zacharias and Elizabeth; the Vision. (Luke 1:5) 3. John th...
PREDICTION OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS. Lk. alone gives this narrative. Three or four months before _the birth of Elisabeth's_ child, Gabriel comes to Nazareth and announces to Mary, a virgin betrothed to o...
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a maiden who was betrothed to a man called Joseph, who belonged to the house of David. The maiden's name...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
THE SIXTH MONTH. After the vision of Zachariah. THIS (Compare Luke 1:36) is the passage which gives John's age as six months older than the Lord's. See App-179. FROM. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. UNTO. G...
The Annunciation 26. _in the sixth month_ i. e. after the vision of Zachariah. This is the only passage which indicates the age of John the Baptist, as half a year older than our Lord. _Galilee_ Thus...
ἘΝ ΔῈ ΤΩ͂Ι ΜΗΝῚ ΤΩ͂Ι ἝΚΤΩΙ. i.e. after the vision of Zachariah. This is the only passage which indicates the age of John the Baptist, as half a year older than our Lord. The reader will observe how th...
THE ANNUNCIATION...
VER 26. AND IN THE SIXTH MONTH THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT FROM GOD TO A CITY OF GALILEE, NAMED NAZARETH, 27. TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH, OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID; AND THE VIRGIN'...
_THE BIRTH OF JESUS WAS ANNOUNCED -- LUKE 1:26-56:_ A month after the announcement of John's birth God sent Gabriel to Nazareth in Galilee with a message for a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to a...
ΑΠΕΣΤΆΛΗ _aor. ind. pass._, _см._ Luke 1:19. Ή _dat. sing. fem. от_ ΔΣ (G3739), rel. _pron., dat._ уважения (IGNT, 98)....
IN THE SIXTH MONTH— Namely, of Elisabeth's pregnancy. Galilee was the most northern part of Palestine. It was bounded on the north by Lebanon and Syria, on the west by Phoenicia, on the south by Samar...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Promise of the Birth of Jesus Scripture_ Luke 1:26-38 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betro...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Predictions of the Redeemer (Luke 1:26-56) 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man...
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, AND IN THE SIXTH MONTH OF ELIZABETH'S CONCEPTION THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT FROM GOD. I could envy...
18 Zacharias does not believe the glad news. Hence he is stricken dumb, for unbelief has no right to speak of the things of God. 19 Gabriel gave Daniel the explanation of two of his visions (Dan_8:16...
BIRTH OF JOHN. THE ANNUNCIATION 1-4. Preface. To write a preface to a history is not a Jewish, but a classical custom, and by following it St. Luke shows himself a true Gentile, trained in Greek cult...
THE ANNUNCIATION (see on Matthew 1). Wonder and awe and adoring praise are the emotions with which Christians have ever regarded the unspeakable condescension of Him who, 'when He took upon Him human...
THE SIXTH MONTH] i.e. from the conception of John, Luke 1:24. NAZARETH] see on Matthew 2:23...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ THE AUTHOR Luke wrote two books of the *New Testament (NT). Luke’s *Gospel tells the story of the life and work of Jesus. Luke’s second book, Acts, continues...
AND IN THE SIXTH MONTH. — The time is obviously reckoned from the commencement of the period specified in Luke 1:24. A CITY OF GALILEE, NAMED NAZARETH. — The town so named (now _en-Nazirah_) was situa...
CHAPTER 3 THE GOSPEL PSALMS. UNLIKE modern church-builders, St. Luke sets his chancel by the porch. No sooner have we passed through the vestibule of his Gospel than we find ourselves within a circle...
CHAPTER 1 THE GENESIS OF THE GOSPEL. THE four walls and the twelve gates of the Seer looked in different directions, but together they guarded, and opened into, one City of God. So the four Gospels l...
Ναζαρέτ : the original home of Joseph and Mary, not merely the adopted home as we might infer from Matthew 2:23....
_The announcement to Mary_....
THE PROMISED MESSIAH Luke 1:26-38 The narrative is artlessly simple and natural and is its own complete vindication. No human genius could have invented it. Compare it, for instance, with all the or...
(3) And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, (3) The angel, serving the Lord who would be born, is sent to the virgin Mary, in whom the son o...
THE ANNUNCIATION TO MARY 26-30. When I visited Nazareth, I spent some time in the Church of the Annunciation, quite magnificent and capacious, said to stand on the identical spot where the angel Gabri...
1. _The appearance of the angel: Luke 1:26-29_. From the temple the narrative transports us to the house of a young Israelitish woman. We leave the sphere of official station to enter into the seclusi...
FIRST PART: THE NARRATIVES OF THE INFANCY, LUKE 1:5 TO LUKE 2:52 Both the first and the third Gospel open with a cycle of narratives relating to the birth and childhood of Jesus. These narratives do n...
SECOND NARRATIVE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS, LUKE 1:26-38 The birth of John the Baptist, like that of Isaac, was due to a higher power; but it did not certainly transcend the limits of the na...
(26) And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, (27) To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_HIGHLY FAVOURED OF THE LORD_ ‘And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God … and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.’ Luke...
26._Now in the sixth month _It was a wonderful dispensation of the divine purpose, and far removed from the ordinary judgment of men, that God determined to make the beginning of the generation of the...
Many had undertaken to give an account of that which was historically received among Christians, as related to them by the companions of Jesus; and Luke thought it well having followed these things fr...
AND IN THE SIXTH MONTH,.... After Elisabeth's conception; for so long was John the Baptist conceived before Christ, and so long he was born before him; and it seems as if there was the same distance b...
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, Ver. 26. _Unto a city of Galilee_] God and his angels can find out his hidden ones, Psalms 83:3, in...
_In the sixth month_ Namely, after Elisabeth had conceived; _the angel Gabriel_ The same angel who had been the messenger of such good news to Zacharias; _was sent from God unto a city of Galilee_ A c...
LUKE'S GOSPEL WRITTEN FOR A GENTILE RULER (vs.1-4) Luke's introduction shows that, though he was concerned about giving exact information in this letter to Theophilus, he had not thought of being an...
26-38 We have here an account of the mother of our Lord; though we are not to pray to her, yet we ought to praise God for her. Christ must be born miraculously. The angel's address means only, Hail,...
Ver. 26,27. In the sixth month, that is, after Elisabeth's conception; thus it is expounded afterward, LUKE 1:36. THE ANGEL GABRIEL, the same angel that had appeared in the temple to Zacharias, who se...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And again, speaking in reference to the angel, he says: "But at that time the angel Gabriel was sent from God, who did also say to the virgin, Fear not, Mary; for t...
Luke 1:26 Now G1161 in G1722 sixth G1623 month G3376 angel G32 Gabriel G1043 sent G649 (G5648) by...
Luke 1:26. IN THE SIXTH MONTH. Not of the year, but of Elisabeth's pregnancy. NAZARETH. The home of both Mary and Joseph, before the birth of Jesus. Matthew (Matthew 2:23) speaks of their residence...
The occurrence here narrated is called the _Annunciation_, ushering in the _Miraculous Conception of Christ._ The account of Matthew presupposes such a miraculous conception (Matthew 1:18-25). There,...
WAS SENT (απεσταλη). Second aorist passive indicative of αποστελλω from which _apostle_ comes. The angel Gabriel is God's messenger to Mary as to Zacharias (Luke 1:19)....
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
Luke 1:26 The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I. "The angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth." Never was a time when, humanly speaking, the promises of God mi...
Luke 1:26 The purpose of this special embassy of the angel was to announce to the Virgin the exceptional and signal honour to which she had been selected as the mother of the Lord. Through this myster...
Luke 1:5. _There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they...
Luke 1:26. _And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgi...
CONTENTS: Birth of John the Baptist foretold. Virgin birth of Jesus foretold. Mary's visit to Elizabeth. Mary's praise because of Jehovah's favor. Birth of John the Baptist. CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit,...
Luke 1:1. _Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things,_ which within a short compass of years have been acted and accomplished among us. In the first age,...
TO A TOWN IN GALILEE NAMED NAZARETH. To the home of Mary. Matthew tells of a later visit of the angel to Joseph (Matthew 1:20-25), but does not tell the angel's name....
_And the virgin’s name was Mary_ THE ANNUNCIATION 1. The messenger sent from heaven to publish the news of the conception of the Son of Gad--an angel. An evil angel was the first author of our ruin...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:26 SIXTH MONTH. The sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy (v. Luke 1:24). NAZARETH was a small agricultural settlement....
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:5 The Infancy Narrative. The opening (Luke 1:8) and conclusion (Luke 2:21) of this secti
THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND BIRTH OF JESUS MATTHEW 1:18-25; LUKE 1:26-38 ANGEL TO JOSEPH ANGEL TO MARY HYPERLINK "TW://BIBLE.*?ID=40.1.18" [VREF] Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his m...
S. LUKE'S GOSPEL Third Edition J OHN H ODGES, AGAR STREET, CHARING CROSS, LONDON. 1892. INTRODUCTION. . T HE _Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to S. Luke_, that is, the Holy Evangelical H...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 1:26. THE SIXTH MONTH.—_I.e._ not of the year: the reference is to the time indicated in Luke 1:24. NAZARETH—St. Luke alone informs us that this village was the place of Mary’s r...
EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever be an interesting study. Here we shall never know the exact...
Luke, the author of this third gospel, was called by Paul the apostle "the beloved physician." There is some speculation that his patron was a man by the name of Theophilus. In those days physicians w...
John 1:45; John 1:46; John 7:41; Luke 2:4; Luke 1:19;...
Gabriel. The annunciation and the angel Gabriel are favorite themes with Dante, and he pictures them with exquisite beauty. Thus both appear on the sculptured wall which flanks the inner side of the p...
THE REVELATIONS OF GOD Luke 1:5 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin here a series of studies taken from the Gospel of Luke. This is the Gospel that emphasizes the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of Man. It wi...
THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS _Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
In the sixth month — After Elisabeth had conceived....
FF— Was the announcement of the birth of Christ made to Mary or to Joseph? PROBLEM: Matthew says the announcement of Jesus’ birth was made to Joseph (Matthew 1:20), but Luke asserts that it was made...
In this history of our Saviour's miraculous and immaculate conception, we have several things observable, as, 1. The messenger sent from heaven to publish the news of their conception of the son of Go...