Luke 1:25
“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
24After these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,
26Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
Cross References
Genesis 21:1The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis 30:22God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
1 Samuel 1:6Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 2:21The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the LORD.
Isaiah 4:1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”
Luke 1:13But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall 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 →