John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 1:7
And they had no child ,.... Son or daughter: and which was accounted a great infelicity: but this was not owing to the judgment of God upon them for any sins they had been guilty of, as the above character of them shows: and it had been the case of some righteous pairs before them for a great while, as Abraham and Sarah, Manoah, and his wile, Elkanah and Hannah: because that Elizabeth was barren ; so that it was peculiarly her case, and not Zacharias's: and though God had promised the... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God ,.... Not as the Pharisees, only righteous before men, but in the sight of God, who sees the heart, and whose judgment is according to truth; and therefore were not justified by the deeds of the law; for by them no man can be justified in the sight of God; but were made righteous through the righteousness of Christ, by which the saints were made righteous before the coming of Christ, as those after it: see Acts 15:11 . God beheld them in his Son, as... read more