Luke 1:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, ”

• Luke 1:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  In the sixth month - The sixth month after Elizabeth’s conception. A city of Galilee named Nazareth - See the notes at Matthew 2:22-23 .

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• Luke 1:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (3) And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, (3) The angel, serving the Lord who would be born, is sent to the virgin Mary, in whom the son...

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• Luke 1:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Prediction of the Birth of Jesus. Lk. alone gives this narrative. Three or four months before the birth of Elisabeth's child, Gabriel comes to Nazareth and announces to Mary, a virgin betrothed t...

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• Luke 1:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the sixth month . After the vision of Zachariah. This (Compare Luke 1:36 ) is the passage which gives John's age as six months older than the Lord's. See App-179. from . Greek. hupo. App-104...

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• Luke 1:26 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  26. Now in the sixth month It was a wonderful dispensation of the divine purpose, and far removed from the ordinary judgment of men, that God determined to make the beginning of the generati...

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• Luke 1:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, A city of Galilee - As Joseph and Mary were both of the family of David, the patrimonial estate of w...

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• Luke 1:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  In the sixth month— Namely, of Elisabeth's pregnancy. Galilee was the most northern part of Palestine. It was bounded on the north by Lebanon and Syria, on the west by Phoenicia, on the south by Sa...

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• Luke 1:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, And in the sixth month of Elizabeth's conception the angel Gabriel was sent from God. I coul...

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• Luke 1:26 - 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 1:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And in the sixth month. — The time is obviously reckoned from the commencement of the period specified in Luke 1:24 . A city of Galilee, named Nazareth. — The town so named (now en-Nazirah ) w...

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• Luke 1:26 - 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 1:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Promised Messiah Luke 1:26-38 The narrative is artlessly simple and natural and is its own complete vindication. No human genius could have invented it. Compare it, for instance, with all t...

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• Luke 1:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (26) And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, (27) To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin...

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• Luke 1:26 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  HIGHLY FAVOURED OF THE LORD ‘And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God … and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.’ Lu...

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• Luke 1:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And in the sixth month ,.... After Elisabeth's conception; for so long was John the Baptist conceived before Christ, and so long he was born before him; and it seems as if there was the same distanc...

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• Luke 1:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, Ver. 26. Unto a city of Galilee ] God and his angels can find out his hidden ones, Psalms 83:3...

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• Luke 1:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  In the sixth month Namely, after Elisabeth had conceived; the angel Gabriel The same angel who had been the messenger of such good news to Zacharias; was sent from God unto a city of Galilee A...

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• Luke 1:26 - 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 1:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Birth of Christ Foretold.       26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,...

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• Luke 1:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 26,27. In the sixth month, that is, after Elisabeth's conception; thus it is expounded afterward, Luke 1:36 . The angel Gabriel, the same angel that had appeared in the temple to Zacharias,...

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• Luke 1:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 1:26 . The sixth month .— I.e. not of the year: the reference is to the time indicated in Luke 1:24 . Nazareth —St. Luke alone informs us that this village was the place o...

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• Luke 1:26 - Scofield Reference Notes

  angel ( See Scofield) - ( Hebrews 1:4 ).

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• Luke 1:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Luke 1:26 The purpose of this special embassy of the angel was to announce to the Virgin the exceptional and signal honour to which she had been selected as the mother of the Lord. Through this my...

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• Luke 1:26 - 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 1:26 - 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 1:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And the virgin’s name was Mary The Annunciation 1. The messenger sent from heaven to publish the news of the conception of the Son of Gad--an angel. An evil angel was the first author of our...

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• Luke 1:26 - 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 1:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And in the sixth month the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

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• Luke 1:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  John 1:45 ; John 1:46 ; John 7:41 ; Luke 2:4 ; Luke 1:19 ; Luke 1:24 ; Matthew 2:23

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• Luke 1:26 - 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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• Luke 1:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  In the sixth month — After Elisabeth had conceived.

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