And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that Holy Thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
LUKE 1:35 gennw,menon {A} The words evk sou/ are apparently an early addition prompted by a desire for greater symmetry after the two preceding instances of the second person pronoun. The expanded re...
Verse 35. _THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE_] This conception shall take place _suddenly_, and the Holy Spirit himself shall be the grand operator. _The power_, δυναμις, the miracle-working power,...
THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE - See Matthew 1:20. THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST ... - This evidently means that the body of Jesus would be created by the direct power of God. It was not by ordinary g...
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...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
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...
SHALL OVERSHADOW. Compare Exodus 33:22.Mark 9:7. THEREFORE. wherefore. THAT HOLY THING. See Heb 7:26. 1 Peter 2:22, and note on Matthew 2
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...
_shall overshadow thee_ as with the Shechinah and Cloud of Glory (see on Luke 2:9; Luke 9:34). See the treatise on the Shechinah in Meuschen, pp. 701 739. On the high theological mystery see Pearson _...
THE ANNUNCIATION...
ἘΚ ΣΟΥ͂ omitted by nearly all the best MSS. 35. ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ ἍΓΙΟΝ. The phrase is _anarthrous_ (i.e. the article is omitted) because ‘Holy Spirit’ is here a proper name. ἘΠΙΣΚΙΆΣΕΙ ΣΟΙ, as with the Shechi...
VER 34. THEN SAID MARY TO THE ANGEL, HOW SHALL THIS BE, SEEING I KNOW NOT A MAN? 35. AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID TO HER, THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON YOU, AND THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST SHALL OVER...
_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...
ΈΠΕΛΕΎΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1904) нисходить, ΕΠΙΣΚΙΆΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΕΠΙΣΚΙΆΖΩ (G1982) осенять. Хотя сами по себе эти слова не имеют сексуального значения, они характери...
DISCOURSE: 1467 THE ANGEL’S MESSAGE TO MARY Luke 1:35; Luke 1:38. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: the...
THEN SAID MARY UNTO THE ANGEL, &C.— When Mary heard Gabriel say that she was to conceive the Messiah, being conscious of her virginity, she found the matter above her comprehension, and therefore desi...
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...
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...
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be...
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...
1:35 born (f-30) Or 'begotten.'...
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 HOLY GHOST, etc.] Mary would doubtless understand 'the Holy Ghost' impersonally, as the creative power of God, but St. Luke's readers would understand it personally, as frequently in the Acts. The...
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...
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...
THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE. — See Note on Luke 1:15. Here, however, the context would suggest to one familiar with the sacred writings, another aspect of the Spirit’s work, as quickening the...
CHAPTER 4 THE VIRGIN MOTHER. THE Beautiful Gate of the Jewish Temple opened into the "Court of the Women"-so named from the fact that they were not allowed any nearer approach towards the Holy Place....
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...
Πνεῦμα Αγιον : without the article because a proper name = the well-known Holy Spirit, say some (Meyer, Farrar), but more probably because the purpose is not to indicate the person by whom, etc., but...
_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...
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost (g) shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that (h) holy thing which shall be born of thee sh...
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, &c. By the divine power thou shalt bring forth, and yet remain always a pure virgin. --- And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee, shall be called ...
MARY'S SUBMISSION 34-38. _“And Mary said, Behold the handmaiden of the Lord: may it he unto me according to thy word.”_ Good Lord, give us the faith of Mary, that we may perfectly submit to Thy Word a...
3. _The manner in which the message was received: Luke 1:34-38_. 34. “ _Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?_ 35. _And the angel answered and said unto her, The H...
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...
_THE VIRGIN BIRTH_ ‘That which is to be born shall be called holy, the Son of God.’ Luke 1:35 (R.V.). The doctrine of the Virgin Birth is based on historical evidence, which, when calmly and dispas...
35._The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee _The angel does not explain the manner, so as to satisfy curiosity, which there was no necessity for doing. He only leads the virgin to contemplate the power of...
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 THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER,.... The angel gave her an account of the manner in which what he had said should be effected, as well as observed some things for the strengthening of her fai...
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be c...
Luke 1:35. "And the angel answered, and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore, also, that holy thing that shall be born of t...
_Then said Mary, How shall this be_ How can I immediately conceive a child, (for so the angel meant, and so she understood him to mean,) _seeing I know not a man?_ This was not the language of distrus...
THAT HOLY THING; the child whose conception was to be miraculously caused by the Holy Spirit....
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,...
THE HOLY GHOST (who is also called here _the power of the Highest) shall come upon thee; _ it is a phrase which signifieth a special and peculiar influence of the Holy Spirit: thus we read of the prop...
Dialogue of Justin But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy, when the angel Gabriel announced the good tidings to her that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her, and the power of the Highest w...
Luke 1:35 And G2532 angel G32 answered G611 (G5679) said G2036 (G5627) her G846 Holy G40 Spirit...
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,...
Luke 1:35. HOLY GHOST, the Third Person of the Trinity. Comp. Matthew 1:18. THE POWER OF THE MOST HIGH. The Holy Spirit is here represented as ‘power,' not strictly ‘the power' (as if He were not a P...
SHALL OVERSHADOW THEE (επισκιασε). A figure of a cloud coming upon her. Common in ancient Greek in the sense of obscuring and with accusative as of Peter's shadow in Acts 5:15. But we have seen it u...
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 1:35 The Mystery of the Holy Incarnation. I. There are beings within the mind's easy conception that far overpass the glories of the statesman and the monarch of our earth. Men of even no extrem...
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...
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...
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,...
MARY SAID TO THE ANGEL. Compare what the angel told Joseph in Matthew 1:19-25_ (see notes there),_ and see what Christ taught about divorce in Matthew 19:1-9_ (see notes there)._...
_The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee_ OF CHRIST’S INCARNATION These words are the angel’s answer to Mary, who, understanding the angel as speaking of a thing presently to be done before Joseph and s...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:35 The HOLY SPIRIT will perform a great miracle, so that Mary will become pregnant without having sexual relations with a man. THEREFORE indicates that Jesus’ holiness comes from h...
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...
VER. 35. _And the Angel answered... the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee_, &c. Mark here that the Incarnation is limited only to the Person of the Word, or Son of God: for He alone was incarnate and ma...
_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...
Acts 8:37; Ephesians 2:3; Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26;
Shall overshadow. "Denoting the mildest and most gentle operation of divine power, that the divine fire should not consume Mary, but make her fruitful" (Bengel). Compare Exodus 33:22; Mark 9:7. Compar...
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...
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 Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee — The power of God was put forth by the Holy Ghost, as the immediate Divine agent in this work: and so he exerte...