Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 1:24
Hid herself — She retired from company, that she might have the more leisure to rejoice and bless God for his wonderful mercy.
Hid herself — She retired from company, that she might have the more leisure to rejoice and bless God for his wonderful mercy.
Verse Luke 1:24. _HID HERSELF FIVE MONTHS_] That she might have the fullest proof of the accomplishment of God's promise before she appeared in public, or spoke of her mercies. When a _Hindoo_ female...
HID HERSELF - Did not go forth into public, and concealed her condition. This might have been done that she might spend her time more entirely in giving praise to God for his mercies, and that she mig...
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...
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...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
AFTER. Greek. _meta._ App-104. CONCEIVED. Greek. _sullambano._. medical word, used in this sense in Luke and in James 1:15. See App-179. HID. completely secluded. Probably to avoid all possibility of...
_hid herself_ We can only conjecture her motive. It may have been devotional; or precautionary; or she may merely have wished out of deep modesty to avoid as long as possible the idle comments and sur...
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...
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BIRTH OF THE FORERUNNER...
ΠΕΡΙΈΚΡΥΒΕΝ ἙΑΥΤΉΝ. ἔκρυβον is a late form of the 2nd aor. of κρύπτω (as though from κρύβω) found also in Plutarch, &c. The compound verb implies the _complete_ seclusion. The periphrastic form used f...
VER 23. AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, AS SOON AS THE DAYS OF HIS MINISTRATION WERE ACCOMPLISHED, HE DEPARTED TO HIS OWN HOUSE. 24. AND AFTER THOSE DAYS HIS WIFE ELISABETH CONCEIVED, AND HID HERSELF FIVE...
_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...
ΣΥΝΈΛΑΒΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΛΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G4815) зачать, забеременеть. О медицинском использовании термина _см._ MLL, 91-92; DMTG, 304. ΠΕΡΙΈΚΡΥΒΕΝ _Impf. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΚΡΎΒΩ (G4032) скрывать, пр...
AND HID HERSELF FIVE MONTHS,— The meaning is, either that she saw no company, judging it proper to spend most of her time in the duties of devotion, and in meditating silently on the wonderful goodnes...
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...
And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, AND ELIZABETH CONCEIVED, AND HID HERSELF FIVE MONTHS - that is, until the event was put beyond doubt. SAYI...
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...
HID HERSELF FIVE MONTHS] She desired to devote herself entirely to prayer and thanksgiving for so signal a mercy. The reproach of childlessness was deeply felt: see Genesis 30:23; 1 Samuel 1:6, etc....
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...
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...
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...
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...
περιέκρυβεν : hid herself _entirely_ (περὶ), here only; ἔκρυβον : a late form of 2nd aorist. Why, not said, nor whether her husband told her what had happened to him. μῆνας πέντε : after which another...
_Returns home_. The week of service over, Zechariah went back to his own house. λειτουργίας : in Biblical Greek used in reference to priestly service; elsewhere of public service rendered by a citizen...
_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 FORERUNNER Luke 1:13-25 As we open this Gospel we feel the wealth of a new age. The country was full of anarchy, misrule and wild passion, but there were many who “spoke often one to another,” M...
DOUBT & DUMBNESS ALWAYS CO-EXISTENT 18-20. Here we see that Zacharias evinced his doubt of Gabriel's communication by asking a sign. O how many people now doubt God and wait for signs, instead of taki...
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...
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...
3. _The accomplishment of the promise: Luke 1:23-25_. The subject of ἐγένετο, _it came to pass_, is all that follows to the end of Luke 1:25. Comp. a similar ἐγένετο, Acts 9:3. The active form περιέκρ...
(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...
24._And hid herself _This appears very strange, as if she had been ashamed of the blessing of God. Some think that she did not, venture to appear in public, so long as the matter was uncertain, for fe...
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 AFTER THOSE DAYS,.... The days of his ministration in the temple, quickly after his return home; the Ethiopic version reads, "after two days": HIS WIFE ELISABETH CONCEIVED; according to the angel...
And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, Ver. 24. _And hid herself_] _Obscurum qua id fecerit ex causa._ It is hard to say why she did this, saith a lea...
_As soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished_ Though he was both deaf and dumb, he was still able to burn incense, and perform the other duties of his office. He therefore continued at t...
HID HERSELF; lived in retirement and seclusion....
AND AFTER THOSE DAYS HIS WIFE ELISABETH CONCEIVED, AND HID HERSELF FIVE MONTHS, SAYING,...
The beginning of the fulfillment:...
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...
Ver. 24,25. How long _after those days_ the Scripture saith not, but it is probable it was soon after, as in the case of Abraham, and in the case of Manoah's wife, JUDGES 13:3, who conceived presently...
Luke 1:24 Now G1161 after G3326 those G5025 days G2250 his G846 wife G1135 Elizabeth G1665 conceived G4815 ...
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...
Luke 1:24. AND AFTER THESE DAYS. Probably immediately after. HID HERSELF FIVE MONTHS, _i.e.,_ the first five months of her pregnancy....
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...
CONCEIVED (συνελαβεν). Luke uses this word eleven times and it occurs only five other times in the N.T. It is a very old and common Greek word. He alone in the N.T. has it for conceiving offspring ...
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,...
AND DID NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE FOR FIVE MONTHS. Her age might be the reason for this, but more likely she stayed in the house to spend more time in worship to God....
_And hid herself five months_ MODESTY A RETIRING GRACE Desirous of plucking one of the elegant sea-anemones, you extend your hand; but, at the slightest touch, its beautiful coronet begins to curl,...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:24 Why Elizabeth remained in seclusion FIVE MONTHS is unclear. TO TAKE AWAY MY REPROACH. Childlessness was considered a disgrace (compare...
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...
_After those days his wife conceived._ Elizabeth conceived about the 24th of September, on which day many Christian Churches celebrate the conception, of John. So that the incense was offered by Zacha...
_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...
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Conceived [σ υ ν ε λ α β ε ν]. Mr. Hobart (" Medical Language of Luke ") says that the number of words referring to pregnancy, barrenness, etc., used by Luke, is almost as large as that used by Hippoc...
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