Luke 1:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. ”

• Luke 1:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Fear not, Mary - Do not be alarmed at this appearance of an angel. He only comes to announce to you good tidings. Similar language was addressed by an angel to Joseph. See the notes at Matthew 1...

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• Luke 1:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast (c) found favour with God. (c) So the Hebrews said, saying that those men have found favour who are in favour.

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• Luke 1:30 - 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 1:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  found. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6, for "received". favour . grace: which is favourthe unworthy, as patience is favour to the obstinate, as mercy is favour to the mis...

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• Luke 1:30 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  30. Fear not, Mary He bids her lay aside fear. Let us always remember—what arises from the weakness of the flesh—that, whenever the feeblest ray of the Divine glory bursts upon us, we cannot...

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• Luke 1:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

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• Luke 1:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And the angel said unto her, Fear not ...

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• Luke 1:30 - 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 1:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou hast found favour with God. — The noun is the same as that elsewhere translated “grace,” but the latter word, though fit enough in itself, has become so associated with the technicalities of t...

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• Luke 1:30 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 3 THE GOSPEL PSALMS. UNLIKE modern church-builders, St. Luke sets his chancel by the porch. No sooner have we passed through the vestibule of his Gospel than we find ourselves within a ci...

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• Luke 1:30 - 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 1:30 - 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 1:30 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE PROMISED SON ‘And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou … shalt … bring forth a Son, and shalt call His name Jesus.’ Luke 1:30-31 In keeping the Feast of the Annunciation we...

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• Luke 1:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the angel said unto her , c] Observing the consternation and confusion she was in fear not, Mary; he calls her by her name, signifying that she was well known to him, as the saints are to the...

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• Luke 1:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. Ver. 30. Fear not, Mary ] We are not fit to hear till quit of carnal affections and passions. The ear which taste...

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• Luke 1:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When she saw him she was troubled Διεταραχθη, disturbed or perplexed; at his saying A salutation so unusual from a being of a superior order (for such his form, which was more than human, bespo...

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• Luke 1:30 - 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 1:30 - 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 1:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This expounds those words, thou that art highly favoured, Luke 1:28 , and lets her know that he came upon no ill design unto her, neither upon any human errand, nor yet with any message of evil...

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• Luke 1:30 - 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 1:30 - Scofield Reference Notes

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

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• Luke 1:30 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Luke 1:26-38 The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I. "The angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth." Never was a time when, humanly speaking, the promises of...

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• Luke 1:30 - 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 1:30 - 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 1:30 - 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 1:30 - 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 1:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The message of the angel:

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• Luke 1:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 18:10 ; Acts 18:9 ; Acts 27:24 ; Hebrews 13:6 ; Isaiah 41:10 ; Isaiah 41:14 ; Isaiah 43:1-4 ; Isaiah 44:2 ; Luke 1:13 ; Luke 12:32 ; Matthew 28:5 ; Romans 8:31

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• Luke 1:30 - 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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