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Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Luke 1:5-79

The Revelations of God Luke 1:5-79 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin here a series of studies taken from the Gospel of Luke. This is the Gospel that emphasizes the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of Man. It will suggest many things to us that will bring great blessings. We trust that God will be with us in our studies. Let us observe several things about visions and revelations in general, and in detail the particular vision that came to Zacharias. 1. We know God by revelation. No one by searching... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 1:5-6

‘There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.’ Herod, king of Judaea (this is to be seen as Judaea in its widest sense, the lands of the Jews, including Samaria, Galilee and Peraea - compare Acts 2:9; Acts 10:37), otherwise known as Herod the Great,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 1:5-25

Zacharias Goes Up to the Temple and Is Promised a Son Who Will Prepare the Way for God’s Messiah, and He is Made Dumb in God’s Presence (1:5-25). From this point on until the end of chapter 2 all is written in Aramaic Greek in vivid contrast to the classical Greek of Luke 1:1-4, and the more general Greek that follows. This may partly reflect Luke’s sources, but he later has no difficulty in turning his Aramaic sources into more general Greek. Thus we must see the Aramaic Greek here as... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 1:5-25

Luke 1:5-Lamentations : . Prediction of the Birth of John the Baptist.— Lk. alone gives the story, which perhaps existed independently. and had been preserved in Baptist circles like that of Acts 19:1-Joshua :. Its Jewish character and form are evident: there are many reminiscences of OT incidents and language. In the days of Herod the Great ( i.e. before Luke 1:4 B.C.) there lived in Judæ a ( Luke 1:39 *) a priest named Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth. She was of Aaronic descent ( cf. ... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 1:5

The Holy Ghost, for infinitely wise reasons, giveth us here an account both of the time when John the Baptist was born, and also of his parentage. It was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, that is, he who was the son of Antipater: not Herod the tetrarch of Galilee, of whom you read Luke 3:1, who put John Baptist to death, that was thirty-one or thirty-two years after this. He is usually called Herod the Great; who fought his way to the government of the Jews under the Romans, and came to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 1:5-25

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 1:5. Herod, the king of Judæa.—He also ruled over Galilee, Samaria, and the greater part of Peræa. He was the son of Antipater, an Edomite, and had been imposed upon the Jewish nation by the Romans. The sovereignty of Herod and the enrolment under Cæsar Augustus (Luke 2:1) are indications of the fact that the sceptre had departed from Judah (Genesis 49:10), and that the appearance of the Messiah might now be looked for. A certain priest.—Not the high priest. Of the course of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:5

Luke 1:5 Man's Extremity God's Opportunity. Reflect: I. On the low ebb to which the fortunes of the house of Israel were reduced at the period when St. John the Baptist was miraculously born. The very language in which the sacred books are written, had long ceased to be a spoken language. The noble spirit of the ancient days had, in a great measure, died out. The very nationality of the Jews had been broken up. Mixed races inhabited Galilee; aliens dwelt in the cities of Samaria; Judea itself... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Luke 1:5

Herod Herod the Great. (See Scofield " :-") read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 1:1-80

Luke, the author of this third gospel, was called by Paul the apostle "the beloved physician." There is some speculation that his patron was a man by the name of Theophilus. In those days physicians were often slaves. And there are some who theorize that Luke was Theophilus' personal physician and servant. Whether or not that be so is only a matter of speculation, and thus, worthless to delve into.Luke was a Greek. And he is the only Gentile to have the privilege of placing scripture in that... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 1:1-80

Luke 1:1 . Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things, which within a short compass of years have been acted and accomplished among us. In the first age, Eusebius admits, that no less than sixty gospels had made their appearance; a number which Mr. Whiston repeats without scruple or disbelief. The fathers, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, allow that the number was considerable. Heretics wrote gospels, of which Ambrose says, “they have filled... read more

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