Luke 1:15
for he will be great before the LORD, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and he will be full of the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb;
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In Context
14and there will be joy to you, and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,
16and he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the LORD their God,
Cross References
Genesis 12:2And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.
Numbers 6:2“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When a man or woman does extraordinarily by vowing a vow of a Nazarite, to be separate to YHWH,
Joshua 4:14On that day YHWH has made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, and they fear him, as they feared Moses, all [the] days of his life.
1 Chronicles 17:8and I am with you wherever you have walked, and I cut off all your enemies from your presence, and have made a name for you like the name of the great ones who [are] in the earth.
Psalms 22:9For You [are] He bringing Me forth from the womb, || Causing Me to trust, || On the breasts of My mother.
Zechariah 9:15YHWH of Hosts covers them over, || And they consumed, and subdued sling-stones, || Indeed, they have drunk, || They have made a noise as wine, || And they have been full as a bowl, || As corners of an altar.
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 →