Luke 1:25
“The Lord has done this for me,” she said, “he has shown me kindness and taken away the public disgrace of childlessness under which I have been living.”
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In Context
24After this his wife, Elizabeth, became pregnant and lived in seclusion for five months.
26Six months later the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
Cross References
Genesis 21:1The Lord remembered what he had told Sarah, and he did as he had promised.
Genesis 30:22Then God remembered Rachel and heard her prayer and gave her a child.
Luke 1:13But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, whom you will call by the 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 →