Luke 1:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: ”

• Luke 1:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He shall be great - There is undoubted reference in this passage to Isaiah 9:6-7 . By his being “great” is meant he shall be distinguished or illustrious; great in power, in wisdom, in dominion...

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• Luke 1:32 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  He shall be great, and shall be (d) called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: (d) He will be declared to be so, for he was the Son of God fr...

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• Luke 1:32 - 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 1:32 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  He shall be great , &c. Marks the break in the Dispensations, verses: Luke 1:32 ; Luke 1:33 being yet future. the Highest . the Most High. Greek hupsiatos. Occurs seven times in Luke ( Lu...

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• Luke 1:32 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  32. He shall be great The angel had said the same thing about John the Baptist, and yet did not intend to make him equal to Christ. But the Baptist is great in his own class, while the great...

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• Luke 1:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: He shall be great - Behold the greatness of the man Christ Jesus:...

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• Luke 1:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Luke 1:32 - 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 1:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Shall be called the Son of the Highest. — It is noticeable that this name applied to our Lord by the angel, appears afterwards as uttered by the demoniacs ( Mark 5:7 ). On the history of the name,...

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• Luke 1:32 - 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 1:32 - 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 1:32 - 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 1:32 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  IN CONFIRMATION OF FAITH ‘He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest.’ Luke 1:32 For the sake of deepening our conviction of the unspeakable importance of the doctrine of...

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• Luke 1:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He shall be great ,.... In his person, as God-man; this child born, and Son given, being the angel of the great counsel, the mighty God, and everlasting Father; Isaiah 9:6 which is here referred t...

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• Luke 1:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: Ver. 32. Son of the Highest ] Answerable to the Hebrew Elion,...

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• Luke 1:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb Though a virgin, strange to say, thou shalt have the honour of being a mother; thou shalt bring forth a son , and that son no ordinary person, but the resto...

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• Luke 1:32 - 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 1:32 - 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 1:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Luke 1:31 "

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• Luke 1:32 - 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 1:32 - 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 1:32 - 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 1:32 - 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 1:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

  He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest The greatness of Jesus The title of “Great” is one which the wisdom of this world recognizes, though I am not sure that it always g...

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• Luke 1:32 - 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 1:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The message of the angel:

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• Luke 1:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 7:11-13 ; Acts 16:17 ; Acts 2:30 ; Acts 2:36 ; Amos 9:11 ; Amos 9:12 ; Ephesians 1:20-23 ; Ezekiel 17:22-24 ; Ezekiel 34:23 ; Ezekiel 34:24 ; Ezekiel 37:24 ; Ezekiel 37:25 ; Heb...

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• Luke 1:32 - 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 1:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He shall be called the Son of the Highest — In this respect also: and that in a more eminent sense than any, either man or angel, can be called so. The Lord shall give him the throne of his father...

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