Luke 1:38 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. ”

• Luke 1:38 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And Mary said, Behold the handmaid ... - This was an expression of resignation to the will of God, and of faith in the promise. To be the “handmaid of the Lord” is to be submissive and obedient,...

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• Luke 1:38 - 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 1:38 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Behold . Greek idou. App-133. handmaid . bondmaid. word. See note on Luke 1:37 . Same word.

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• Luke 1:38 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  38. Behold the handmaid of the Lord The holy virgin does not allow herself to dispute any farther: and yet many things might unquestionably have obtruded themselves, to repress that faith, a...

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• Luke 1:38 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1467 THE ANGEL’S MESSAGE TO MARY Luke 1:35 ; Luke 1:38 . And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow...

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• Luke 1:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. Behold the handmaid of the Lord - I fully credit what thou sayest, and am perfect...

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• Luke 1:38 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Behold the handmaid, &c.— Mary expressed in this answer both great faith and great resignation. She believed what the angel had told her concerning her conception, and wished for it, not regard...

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• Luke 1:38 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according t...

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• Luke 1:38 - 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 1:38 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Behold the handmaid of the Lord... — The words seem to show a kind of half-consciousness that the lot which she thus accepts might bring with it unknown sufferings, as well as untold blessedness. S...

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• Luke 1:38 - 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 1:38 - 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 1:38 - 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 1:38 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  WOMAN’S TRUE AVOCATION ‘The handmaid of the Lord.’ Luke 1:38 The glory of woman only abides while it remains true to the instincts which God implanted. What these instincts are, what woman’s...

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• Luke 1:38 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Mary said, behold the handmaid of the Lord, .... In which words she expresses her obedience of faith; she owns herself to be the handmaid of the Lord, and desires to obey him, and be submissive...

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• Luke 1:38 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. Ver. 38. Behold the handmaid of the Lord ] Not Mall God's maid, as a black mo...

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• Luke 1:38 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then said Mary, How shall this be How can I immediately conceive a child, (for so the angel meant, and so she understood him to mean,) seeing I know not a man? This was not the language of distru...

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• Luke 1:38 - 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 1:38 - 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 1:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Once have I spoken, (saith Job, Job 40:5 ) but I will not answer. In like manner the virgin speaketh: I will dispute no more; I am the Lord's servant, let him do with me whatsoever he please...

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• Luke 1:38 - 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 1:38 - 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 1:38 - 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 1:38 - 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 1:38 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Behold the handmaid of the Lord Mary’s quiet acceptance of greatness Nothing impresses us more than the calmness with which, after the first trouble was past, the virgin received the message of...

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• Luke 1:38 - 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 1:38 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The explanation of the miracle:

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• Luke 1:38 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 7:25-29 ; Psalms 116:16 ; Psalms 119:38 ; Romans 4:20 ; Romans 4:21

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• Luke 1:38 - 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 1:38 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord — It is not improbable, that this time of the virgin's humble faith, consent, and expectation, might be the very time of her conceiving.

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