Luke 2:37

and this woman was a widow to eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

In Context

36And there was Anna, a prophetess, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (being advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

38And having stood near at that same hour, she acknowledged the Lord, and spoke about him to all those who were awaiting redemption in Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Exodus 38:8And he made the laver of brass, and the base of it of brass, from the mirrors of the women who fasted, who fasted by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, in the day in which he set it up.

Psalms 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.

Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalms 84:10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalms 135:1Praise ye LORD. Praise ye the name of LORD. Praise, O ye servants of LORD,

Acts 13:3Then, having fasted and prayed and laid hands on them, they sent them away.

Matthew Henry on Luke 2:26-41

Christ and Simeon in the Temple; Anna in the Temple. 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. 26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his… Read the whole commentary →

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