Luke 1:25
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had regard to take away my reproach among men.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
24And after those days, Elizabeth his wife conceived, and hid herself five months, saying:
26And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth,
Cross References
Genesis 21:1And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.
Genesis 30:22The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.
1 Samuel 1:6Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:
1 Samuel 2:21And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the Lord.
Isaiah 4:1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.
Luke 1:13But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John:
Matthew Henry on Luke 1:6-26
The Appearance of an Angel to Zacharias; The Birth of John Foretold; The Unbelief of Zacharias. 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judæa, 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 were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. 8 And it came to… Read the whole commentary →