Luke 1:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. ”

• Luke 1:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  An angel - An “angel” is a messenger sent from God. See the notes at Matthew 1:20 . It had now been about 400 years since the time of “Malachi,” and since there had been any divine revelation. D...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  appeared. App-106. an angel. For the frequent references to angels in Luke, see Luke 1:26 ; Luke 2:9 ; Luke 2:13 ; Luke 2:21 ; Luke 12:8 ; Luke 15:10 ; Luke 16:22 ; Luke 22:43 ; Luke 24:4...

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• Luke 1:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. There appeared - an angel of the Lord - There had been neither prophecy nor angelic ministry vouch...

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• Luke 1:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  There appeared unto him an angel— It is altogether uncertain whether this happened at the morning or evening sacrifice. Grotius thinks it was in the morning; others fancy it was in the evening; but...

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• Luke 1:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord - not while at home, but in the act of di...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The altar of incense. — The altar stood just in front of the veil that divided the outer sanctuary from the Holy of Holies. It was made of shittim wood, and overlaid with gold, both symbols of inco...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord ,.... Gabriel, as seem's manifest from Luke 1:19 the same angel that had appeared to Daniel, about the time of the evening oblation, near five hund...

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• Luke 1:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. Ver. 11. Standing on the right side of the altar ] As Satan stood at the right hand of Joshua...

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• Luke 1:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  There appeared unto him an angel About four hundred years had passed since God had vouchsafed to his ancient people any supernatural communication, either by prophecy, the ministry of angels, or in...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Though we translate it appeared, yet in the Greek it is, there was seen of him. An angel indeed was there; whether the angel Gabriel or not, or in what form he appeared, it is not said. It is by s...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  An angel of the Lord Angelic visits The angels will come to us when we are doing the Lord’s business--even though that business be routine, and we have become almost weary with its mechanical r...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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• Luke 1:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

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• Luke 1:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 10:3 ; Acts 10:4 ; Exodus 30:1-6 ; Exodus 37:25-29 ; Exodus 40:26 ; Exodus 40:27 ; Hebrews 1:14 ; Judges 13:3 ; Judges 13:9 ; Leviticus 16:13 ; Luke 1:19 ; Luke 1:28 ; Luke 2:10 ;...

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• Luke 1:11 - 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...

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