Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 1:45
Happy is she that believed — Probably she had in her mind the unbelief of Zacharias.
Happy is she that believed — Probably she had in her mind the unbelief of Zacharias.
Verse 45. _BLESSED IS SHE THAT BELIEVED; FOR THERE SHALL BE_, c.] Or, _Blessed is she who hath believed that there shall be_, c. This I believe to be the proper arrangement of the passage, and is thu...
BLESSED IS SHE THAT BELIEVED - That is, “Mary” who believed what the angel spoke to her. She was blessed not only in the act of believing, but because the thing promised would certainly be fulfilled....
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...
MARY VISITS ELISABETH. THE MAGNIFICAT. The passage links the two preceding incidents, and serves to show the inferiority of John the forerunner, to Jesus the Messiah. Mary (finding herself with child)...
In those days Mary arose and went eagerly to the hill country, to a city of Judah, and went into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting the babe leaped in h...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
BLESSED. happy. Not the same word as in Luke 1:42. PERFORMANCE. fulfilment. from. Greek _para._ App-104....
_blessed is she that believed_ Perhaps Elizabeth had in mind the affliction which had followed her husband's doubt. Comp. John 20:29. _for there shall be a performance_ The words may also mean -she _...
The Visit of Mary to Elizabeth 39. _in those days_ Rather, THESE. Probably within a month of the Annunciation. _went into the hill country_ Palestine west of the Jordan lies in _four_parallel lines o...
THE VISIT OF MARY TO ELIZABETH...
ΜΑΚΑΡΊΑ Ἡ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΣΑΣΑ. Perhaps Elizabeth had in mind the affliction which had followed her husband’s doubt. Comp. John 20:29. ὍΤΙ ἜΣΤΑΙ ΤΕΛΕΊΩΣΙΣ. The words may also mean ‘she that believed _that_ the...
Ver 39. And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; 40. And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. 41. And it came to pass, that,...
_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...
ΜΑΚΆΡΙΟΣ (G3107) блаженный (_см._ Matthew 5:3). ΠΙΣΤΕΎΣΑΣΑ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ (G4100) верить, доверять, ΔΗ (G3754) потому что — вводит причину для счастья; или что — передает содержание ве...
AND BLESSED IS SHE THAT BELIEVED, &C.— Dr. Heylin, in agreement with the margin of our English version, renders it, _And blessed is she who believed that there shall be,_ &c. Elisabeth in these words...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Mary Visited Elizabeth Scripture_ Luke 1:39-56 And Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah; 40 and entered into the house of Zac...
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 blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. AND BLESSED IS SHE THAT BELIEVED: FOR [ hoti (G3754)] THERE SHALL BE A PERFORMA...
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...
1:45 Lord. (g-22) 'Jehovah.' so vers. 66 and 68....
FOR THERE SHALL BE A PERFORMANCE] RM 'that there shall be,' etc....
MARY'S VISIT TO ELISABETH. THE MAGNIFICAT. This beautiful narrative must be derived from Mary herself, probably directly. It is told as vividly and minutely after a lapse of half-a-century as if it we...
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...
BLESSED IS SHE THAT BELIEVED. — The two renderings, “for there shall be,” and “that there shall be,” are equally tenable grammatically. On internal grounds there seems a balance in favour of the latte...
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....
μακαρία, here, as elsewhere, points to rare and high felicity connected with heroic moods and achievements. ὅτι, _because_ or _that_, which? great conflict of opinion among commentators. The former se...
_Mary visits Elizabeth_....
THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER Luke 1:39-56 Zacharias lived in a Levitical city in the hill country of Judah. The narrative evidently implies that there had been no previous communication between the...
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...
THIRD NARRATIVE: MARY'S VISIT TO ELIZABETH, LUKE 1:39-56. This narrative is, as it were, the synthesis of the two preceding. These two divinely favoured women meet and pour forth their hearts. 1. Arr...
2. _The salutation of Elizabeth: Luke 1:42-45_. “ _And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb._ 43. _And whence is this to me, th...
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...
(39) And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; (40) And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. (41) And it came to pass, that,...
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...
45._And blessed is she that believed _It was by a hidden movement of the Spirit, as is evident from a former statement of Luke, that Elisabeth spoke. The same Spirit declares that Mary is _blessed _be...
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 BLESSED IS SHE THAT BELIEVED..... Meaning Mary, a woman, a very young woman, and who had had things very incredible to nature and reason told her; and yet she believed, without objecting thereto,...
And blessed _is_ she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. Ver. 45. _Blessed is she, &c._] Mary believed, so did not Zacharias, though a m...
_Mary arose in those days_ That is, soon after the time that she had received the extraordinary message mentioned above; _and went into the hill-country_ Where Elisabeth dwelt, although it was at leas...
BLESSED IS SHE THAT BELIEVED; Mary, a poor female, on the simple declaration of God, believed things much more strange than those which staggered the faith of Zacharias, the aged priest of the Lord....
AND BLESSED IS SHE THAT BELIEVED; FOR THERE SHALL BE A PERFORMANCE OF THOSE THING'S WHICH WERE TOLD HER FROM THE LORD. In those same days Mary got ready for a visit to her kinswoman, for the news of t...
MARY'S VISIT TO ELISABETH. The salutation of Mary and Elisabeth's answer:...
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...
THAT BELIEVED, FOR THERE: Or, which believed, that there...
39-56 It is very good for those who have the work of grace begun in their souls, to communicate one to another. On Mary's arrival, Elisabeth was conscious of the approach of her who was to be the mot...
Some will have this given as a reason why Elisabeth pronounced her blessed, because she believed that what God had said should have its effect; as, LUKE 11:27,28, when the woman blessed the womb that...
Luke 1:45 G2532 Blessed G3107 believed G4100 (G5660) for G3754 be G2071 (G5704) fulfillment G5050 told...
Luke 1:45. FOR THERE SHALL BE, or, ‘believed that there shall be,' etc. The former rendering introduces an encouragement for Mary's faith, tells of the blessing of entire fulfilment which will be give...
ON THE HARMONY with the account in Matthew. Views: 1. That the events recorded in Matthew 1:18-25 took place before the visit to Elisabeth. It is urged that a betrothed virgin would not be permitted t...
FOR (οτ). It is not certain whether οτ here is "that" or "because." It makes good sense either way. See also Luke 7:16. This is the first beatitude in the New Testament and it is similar to the last...
Luke 1:39. _And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, whe...
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,...
Elizabeth speaks in the poetic imagery of the Middle East, and she speaks as a prophet. MY LORD'S MOTHER. Mary was to be the mother of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. [Note the pre-existence of Jesus (Col...
_And Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country_ THE HOME OF ZACHARIAS Juttah, an ancient priestly town, is held by the Greek Church to be the birthplace of St. John the Baptist, and as...
_And blessed is she that believeth,--_ BLESSEDNESS OF FIRMLY BELIEVING Doubting nothing! That is the secret of liberty, of efficiency, of success in every work which is undertaken by men: a confiden...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:5 The Infancy Narrative. The opening (Luke 1:8) and conclusion (Luke 2:21) of this secti
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...
_Blessed_, &c. Elizabeth, therefore, knew by the Holy Spirit that the Blessed Virgin had believed the angel when he announced the conception and nativity of Christ. "Blessed art thou, both in fact bec...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 1:39. CITY OF JUDAH.—The city is not named. Probably it was not Hebron, as a place so well known would most likely have been named. The conjecture that Judah is a corruption of J...
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...
2 Chronicles 20:20; John 11:40; John 20:29; Luke 1:20; Luke 11:27;...
For [ο τ ι]. Many, however, prefer that, referring to the substance of her belief : "She believed that there shall be a fulfilment," etc. It is urged that the conception, which was the principal point...
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...