Luke 1:26

Six months later the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

In Context

25“This is what the Lord has done for me,” she said, “now that he has deigned to take away the reproach under which I have been living.”

27to a maiden there who was betrothed to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. Her name was Mary.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:23And there he settled in the town of Nazareth, in fulfilment of these words in the Prophets — ‘He will be called a Nazarene.’

Luke 2:4Among others Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem, the town of David, in Judea — because he belonged to the family and house of David —

John 7:41You are doing what your own father does.” “We are not bastards,” they said, “we have one Father — God himself.”

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 →

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