Luke 1:25

For so the Lord did to me in the days, in which he beheld, to take away my reproof [or my shame] among men.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

In Context

24And after these days Elisabeth, his wife, conceived, and hid her (self) (for) five months, and said,

26But in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, whose name was Nazareth,

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Cross References

Genesis 21:1Forsooth God visited Sarah, as he promised, and [ful] filled those things, that he spake.

Genesis 30:22Also the Lord had mind on Rachel, and he heard her, and opened her womb. (And the Lord remembered Rachel, and he heard her prayers and pleadings, and opened her womb.)

1 Samuel 1:6And her enemy (Peninnah) tormented her, and anguished (her) greatly, in so much that she upbraided her, that the Lord had closed (up) her womb.

1 Samuel 2:21Therefore the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived, and childed three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel was magnified at the Lord (or But their boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord).

Isaiah 4:1And seven women shall catch one man in that day, and shall say, We shall eat our bread, and we shall be covered with our clothes; only thy name be called on us, do thou away our shame. (And seven women shall catch one man on that day, and shall say, We shall eat our own bread, and we shall be covered with our own clothes; but let us be called by thy name, so as to do away our shame.)

Luke 1:13And the angel said to him, Zacharias, dread thou not, (or Zechariah, fear not); for thy prayer is heard, and Elisabeth, thy wife, shall bear to thee a son, and his name shall be called 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 →

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