Luke 1:48 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. ”

• Luke 1:48 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He hath regarded the low estate of his handmaid - Literally, he has looked upon the low or humble condition of his handmaid. That is, notwithstanding her humble rank and poverty, he has shown her...

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• Luke 1:48 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For he hath (q) regarded the (r) low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. (q) Has freely and graciously loved. (r) Literally, "My baseness",...

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• Luke 1:48 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Mary Visits Elisabeth. The Magnificat. The passage links the two preceding incidents, and serves to show the inferiority of John the forerunner, to Jesus the Messiah. Mary (finding herself with chi...

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• Luke 1:48 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  regarded . looked (Greek. epiblepo. App-133.) upon (Greek. epi. App-104.) See James 2:3 , and compare 1 Samuel 1:11 . Psalms 33:14 ; Psalms 119:132 (Septuagint).

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• Luke 1:48 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  48. Because he hath looked She explains the reason why the joy of her heart was founded in God to be, that out of free grace he had looked upon her. By calling herself low she disclaims a...

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• Luke 1:48 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. He hath regarded - Looked favorably, etc., επεβλεψεν. In the most tender and...

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• Luke 1:48 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For he hath regarded— 'Επεβλεψεν; "he hath looked with a distinguishing regard, and wonderful condescension. Though I am a person in the lowest station, and had not the least reason to expect that...

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• Luke 1:48 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden - for the fami...

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• Luke 1:48 - 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 1:48 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The low estate of his handmaiden. — Note the recurrence of the word that had been used in Luke 1:37 , as expressing the character which she was now ready to accept, whatever it might involve. Al...

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• Luke 1:48 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Song of the Virgin Mother Luke 1:39-56 Zacharias lived in a Levitical city in the hill country of Judah. The narrative evidently implies that there had been no previous communication betwee...

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• Luke 1:48 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (39) And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; (40) And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. (41) And it came to pass, that,...

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• Luke 1:48 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord.… As He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.’ Luke 1:46-55 Next to the Lord’s Prayer, perhaps, few passages of Sc...

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• Luke 1:48 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden, .... Meaning, either her outward temporal estate, which was very low and mean: David's family was now very much reduced, it had its seat not at...

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• Luke 1:48 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Ver. 48. The low estate ] Vilitatem, the vile and abject condition....

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• Luke 1:48 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And Mary said Under a prophetic impulse, several things which perhaps she herself did not then fully understand. Having heard Elisabeth speak, as above related, she likewise was filled with the Hol...

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• Luke 1:48 - 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 1:48 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Interview of Mary and Elisabeth; The Song of Mary.       39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste,...

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• Luke 1:48 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBGrk; Our translators have here rightly translated tapeinwsin, low estate. Mary doubtless doth not here commend her own humility, (as some papists would have it), but magnifies God for that he h...

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• Luke 1:48 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 1:39 . City of Judah .—The city is not named. Probably it was not Hebron, as a place so well known would most likely have been named. The conjecture that Judah is a corruptio...

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• Luke 1:48 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Luke 1:46-48 The Reverence due to the Blessed Virgin. Note: I. The singular beauty and purity and steadiness of character which are manifested in those passages of St. Mary's life which come bef...

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• Luke 1:48 - 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 1:48 - 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 1:48 - The Biblical Illustrator

  My soul doth magnify the Lord Mary’s song Mary was on a visit when she expressed her joy in the language of this noble song. It were well if all our social intercourse were as useful to our he...

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• Luke 1:48 - 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 1:48 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The hymn of Mary:

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• Luke 1:48 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 1:26-28 ; 1 Samuel 1:11 ; 1 Samuel 2:8 ; 2 Samuel 7:18 ; 2 Samuel 7:19 ; 2 Samuel 7:8 ; Genesis 30:13 ; Isaiah 66:2 ; James 2:5 ; James 2:6 ; Luke 1:28 ; Luke 1:42 ; Luke 1...

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• Luke 1:48 - 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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