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Luke 1:5
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
Verse Luke 1:5. _IN THE DAYS OF HEROD, THE KING_] This was _Herod_, surnamed the _Great_, the son of _Antipater_, an Idumean by birth, who had professed himself a proselyte to the Jewish religion, bu...
IN THE DAYS OF HEROD - See the notes at Matthew 2:1. OF THE COURSE OF ABIA - When the priests became so numerous that they could not at once minister at the altar, David divided them into 24 classes o...
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 JOHN THE BAPTIST. Lk. alone gives the story, which perhaps existed independently. and had been preserved in Baptist circles like that of Acts 19:1. Its Jewish character and...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
In the time of Herod, the king of Judaea, there was a priest called Zacharias, who belonged to the section of Abia. His wife was also a direct descendant of Aaron and her name was Elizabeth. Both of t...
THERE WAS. There came to be.. Hebraism, Compare Luke 1:8, and see on Luke 2:1. IN. Greek _en._ App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Luke 1:15; Luke 1:20;...
The Announcement of the Birth of the Fore-runner 5. _There was in the days_ The elaborate style of the Preface is at once replaced by one of extreme directness and simplicity, full of Hebraic expressi...
ΓΥΝῊ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι. The reading of אBCDLX Gr[1] La[2] Ti[3] &c.; ‘_he had a wife_’ instead of the ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ‘his wife _was_’ of the _Rec_[4] [1] Gr. Griesbach. [2] La. Lachmann. [3] Ti. Tischendorf. [4]...
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BIRTH OF THE FORERUNNER...
VER 5. THERE WAS IN THE DAYS OF HEROD, THE KING OF JUDEA, A CERTAIN PRIEST NAMED ZACHARIAS, OF THE COURSE OF ABIA: AND HIS WIFE WAS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF AARON, AND HER NAME WAS ELIZABETH. 6. AND THEY W...
_THE BIRTH OF JOHN WAS ANNOUNCED -- LUKE 1:5-25:_ The birth of both John and Jesus took place while Herod was king of Judea. During this time there was a good man names named Zacharias. He was a pries...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Luke 1:2 (_см._ Luke 2:1). ΈΦΗΜΕΡΊΑ (G2183) дневная служба; чреда ﬦשׁﬦﬧ) священников, которые неели службу в течение недели. Все священники делились на 24 семьи ил...
IN THE DAYS OF HEROD, &C.— See on Matthew 2:1. The descendants of Aaron multiplied to such a degree, that they could not all do duty in the temple at once; David therefore divided them into twenty-fou...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Preparing for the Redeemer (Luke 1:5-25) 5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife of the da...
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. THERE WAS, IN TH...
1 Many biographies of the life of our blessed Lord were composed during the lifetime of those who had known Him. Luke had exceptional opportunities for such a work and proposes to write an account whi...
CONCEPTION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. The rise of Christianity was preceded by a long period of four hundred years, during which prophecy was silent, and the religious guidance of the nation passed to the r...
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 classical style of the preface now changes abruptly to one which is deeply tinged with Hebraisms. This Hebraic style continues to the end of Luke 2. Some scholars explain it by supposing that St....
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...
THERE WAS IN THE DAYS OF HEROD. — The writer begins, as he had promised, with the first facts in the divine order of events. The two Chapter s that follow have every appearance of having been based or...
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...
CHAPTER 2 THE MUTE PRIEST. Luke 1:5; Luke 1:57. AFTER his personal prelude, our Evangelist goes on to give in detail the pre-Advent revelations, so connecting the thread of his narrative with the br...
_The parents of John_. ἐγένετο, there was, or there lived. ἐν ταῖς ἡ., etc.: in the days, the reign, of Herod, king of Judaea. Herod died 750 A.C., and _the Christian_ era begins with 753 A.C. This da...
_The birth of the Baptist announced_. From the long prefatory sentence, constructed according to the rules of Greek syntax, and with some pretensions to classic purity of style, we pass abruptly to th...
THE BEGINNING OF THE GOOD NEWS Luke 1:1-12 The opening verses are very explicit. They are answer enough to those who question the story of our Lord's supernatural birth and early years. Luke did not...
There (2) was (f) in the days of (g) Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the (h) course of Abia: and his wife [was] of the daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elisabeth....
The Almighty appointed Moses that there should be but one high priest at a time, to whom, at his decease, a successor should be chosen. This rule obtained until the time of David, by whom, by the insp...
OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS 5. John the Baptist was a bonafide Aaronic priest in a pre-eminent sense, both his father and his mother belonging to the family of Aaron. 6. _“They were both righteous before G...
1. _The trial: Luke 1:5-7_. For 400 years direct communications between the Lord and His people had ceased. To the lengthened seed-time of the patriarchal, Mosaic, and prophetic periods, had succeeded...
FIRST NARRATIVE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, LUKE 1:5-25. The first words of the narrative bring us back from the midst of Greece, whither we were transported by the prologue, into...
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...
(5) There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. (6) And they wer...
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...
Luke very properly begins his Gospel with John the Baptist, just as a person who was going to speak about the daylight would commence with the dawn. For, like the dawn, he went before the Sun of Right...
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...
THERE WAS IN THE DAYS OF HEROD, THE KING OF JUDEA,.... This was Herod, the son of Antipater, sometimes called Herod the Great, and is rightly here said to be the king of Judea; for, by deputation from...
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. Ver. 5. _In th...
_There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea_ This is he who is commonly known by the name of _Herod the Great_, a cruel, ambitious man, who, without any title, obtained the crown of Judea from...
COURSE OF ABIA; the priests were divided into twenty-four courses or classes. 1 Chronicles 24:7-18. Each officiated a week, from one Sabbath to the next. The course of Abia, to which Zacharias belonge...
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...
5-25 The father and mother of John the Baptist were sinners as all are, and were justified and saved in the same way as others; but they were eminent for piety and integrity. They had no children, an...
The Holy Ghost, for infinitely wise reasons, giveth us here an account both of the time when John the Baptist was born, and also of his parentage. It was IN THE DAYS OF HEROD, THE KING OF JUDEA, that...
Victorinus Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John But Luke said, "There was a priest, by name Zachariah, of the course of Abia, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron: "[27]...
Luke 1:5 was G1096 (G5633) in G1722 days G2250 Herod G2264 king G935 Judea G2449 certain G5100 priest...
‘There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both...
ZACHARIAS GOES UP TO THE TEMPLE AND IS PROMISED A SON WHO WILL PREPARE THE WAY FOR GOD'S MESSIAH, AND HE IS MADE DUMB IN GOD'S PRESENCE (1:5-25). From this point on until the end of chapter 2 all is w...
Chaps. 1 and 2 forming the _first part_ of the Gospel, narrate ‘the miraculous birth and normal development of the Son of Man.' Chap. 1 tells of events preceding the birth of Christ, namely, the annou...
Luke 1:5. IN THE DAYS OF HEROD. See on Matthew 2:1. A CERTAIN PRIEST. Not the high-priest ZACHARIAS, _i.e.,_ ‘the Lord remembers.' OF THE COURSE OF ABIJAH. The _eighth_ of the twenty-four classes...
THERE WAS (εγενετο). Not the usual εν for "was," but there arose or came into notice. With this verse the literary _Koine_ of verses 1 to 4 disappears. To the end of chapter 2 we have the most Hebra...
HEROD Herod the Great. (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 2:1). _...
Luke 1:5 Man's Extremity God's Opportunity. Reflect: I. On the low ebb to which the fortunes of the house of Israel were reduced at the period when St. John the Baptist was miraculously born. The ve...
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 1:5. _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,...
DURING THE TIME WHEN HEROD WAS KING. Herod the Great (_see note on_ Matthew 2:1). A PRIEST NAMED ZECHARIAH. Not a "chief priest," one of the lower ranks. ORDER OF ABIJAH. All the priests were grouped...
_A certain priest named Zacharias._ --Mark how immediately the historian betakes himself to the collateral line. Something very suggestive in this. No one life independent of other lives. As every tex...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:5 The Infancy Narrative. The opening (Luke 1:8) and conclusion (Luke 2:21) of this secti
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...
_There was in the days of Herod._ S. Luke begins by mentioning the name of Herod to point out the time when John the Baptist and Christ were born; and also to show that the sceptre had now departed fr...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 1:5. HEROD, THE KING OF JUDÆA.—He also ruled over Galilee, Samaria, and the greater part of Peræa. He was the son of Antipater, an _Edomite_, and had been imposed upon the Jewish...
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...
1 Chronicles 24:10; 1 Chronicles 24:19; Matthew 2:1; Nehemiah 12:17;...
King. A title decreed to Herod by the Roman Senate on the recommendation of Antony and Octavius. The Greek style now gives place to the Hebraized style. See Introduction. Course [ε φ η μ ε ρ ι α ς]. L...
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...
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 course of Abia — The priests were divided into twenty — four courses, of which that of Abia was the eighth, 1 Chronicles 24:10. Each course ministered in its turn, for seven days, from Sabbath to...
In this and the following verses, the Holy Ghost gives us. description of John the Baptist, who was the harbinger and forerunner of our Saviour Christ; he is described, first by his parentage, being t...