Luke 1:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. ”

Luke 1:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The whole multitude - This was the regular time of evening prayer, and multitudes came up to the temple to worship. Praying without - That is, in the courts around the temple, particularly in...
Luke 1:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 19:1-6 . Its Jewish charact...
Luke 1:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

praying. See App-134. at the time . at the hour. This was the signal.
Luke 1:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. The whole multitude - were praying - The incense was itself an emblem of the prayers and praises of the people of Go...
Luke 1:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The whole multitude, &c.— Because it sometimes happened, that, on ordinary week-days, few or none of the people attended the morning and evening sacrifices, there were four and twenty men emplo...
Luke 1:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without - outside the court fronting the temple, where st...
Luke 1:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Birth of John. The Annunciation 1-4. Preface. To write a preface to a history is not a Jewish, but a classical custom, and by following it St. Luke shows himself a true Gentile, trained in Greek c...
Luke 1:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The whole multitude. — Knowing as we do from this Gospel, what hopes were cherished by devout hearts at this time, we may well believe that the prayers of the people, no less than those of the prie...
Luke 1:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 1 THE GENESIS OF THE GOSPEL. THE four walls and the twelve gates of the Seer looked in different directions, but together they guarded, and opened into, one City of God. So the four Gospe...
Luke 1:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Beginning of the Good News Luke 1:1-12 The opening verses are very explicit. They are answer enough to those who question the story of our Lord's supernatural birth and early years. Luke di...
Luke 1:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(5) There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, 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 we...
Luke 1:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE CHURCH’S POWER ‘And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.’ Luke 1:10 Both the parents of John, Zacharias and Elizabeth, were of the family of the...
Luke 1:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the whole multitude of the people were praying without ,.... In the court of the Israelites, whilst Zacharias was in the holy place; though not in the holy of holies, where only the high priest...
Luke 1:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. Ver. 10. Praying without at the time of incense ] Song of Solomon 3:6 , the Church is said to ascend out of the...
Luke 1:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The whole multitude of the people , &c. The manner in which the evangelist expresses himself here, shows that a more than ordinary concourse of the people was in the temple on this occasion, fro...
Luke 1:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

LUKE'S GOSPEL WRITTEN FOR A GENTILE RULER (vs.1-4) Luke's introduction shows that, though he was concerned about giving exact information in this letter to Theophilus, he had not thought of bein...
Luke 1:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Appearance of an Angel to Zacharias; The Birth of John Foretold; The Unbelief of Zacharias. 5 There was in the days of Herod...
Luke 1:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

We are told, that the order of the Jewish daily service was this: twice in the day the priests whose course it was to minister, or such of them whose lot it was, went into the holy place to burn ince...
Luke 1:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Luke 1:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Luke 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...
Luke 1:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Luke 1:5-6 . There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And...
Luke 1:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 a...
Luke 1:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

While he executed the priest’s office The priest’s office The duties of the priests were many and various. It was their awful and peculiar honour to “come near the Lord” ( Exodus 19:22 ). None...
Luke 1:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever be an interesting study. Here we shall never know t...
Luke 1:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zacharias in the Temple:
Luke 1:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 4:14 ; Hebrews 9:24 ; Leviticus 16:17 ; Revelation 8:3
Luke 1:10 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Seven Magnificats Selections from Luke 1:1-80 and Luke 2:1-52 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Chri...
Luke 1:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The people were praying without, at the time of the incense — So the pious Jews constantly did. And this was the foundation of that elegant figure, by which prayer is in Scripture so often compared...

Luke 1:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Luke 1:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 1:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Luke 1:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Luke 1:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Luke 1:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Luke 1:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 1:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Luke 1:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Luke 1:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Luke 1:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Luke 1:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Luke 1:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Luke 1:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Luke 1:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 1:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 1:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Luke 1:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Luke 1:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 1:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Luke 1:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Luke 1:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 1:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Luke 1:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Luke 1:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Luke 1:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 1:10 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Luke 1:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes