Luke 1:58 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. ”

• Luke 1:58 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Birth of John. The Benedictas. In due course Elisabeth bore her son and received the congratulations of her friends. When the babe has been circumcised and named, his mother rejects the proposa...

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• Luke 1:58 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  shewed great mercy . magnified His mercy.. Hebraism. Compare Genesis 19:19 ; 2 Samuel 22:51 , Septuagint. upon . with. Greek meta. App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Luke 1:12 ; Luke 1...

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• Luke 1:58 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  58. And her neighbors and relatives heard It may admit of doubt, whether the wonderful kindness of God was estimated by those persons from the simple fact of her being blessed with a child,...

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• Luke 1:58 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. And her neighbors and her cousins - rejoiced with her. - Because sterility was a rep...

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• Luke 1:58 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. And her neighbours ... rejoiced with her.

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• Luke 1:58 - 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 1:58 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Her neighbours and her cousins. — Better, her kindred, as including a wider range of relations than that which comes within our definition of cousinship. The words imply that they had heard somet...

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• Luke 1:58 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 2 THE MUTE PRIEST. Luke 1:5-25 ; Luke 1:57-80 . AFTER his personal prelude, our Evangelist goes on to give in detail the pre-Advent revelations, so connecting the thread of his narrat...

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• Luke 1:58 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Song at the Herald's Birth Luke 1:57-80 This song is second only to that of Mary. It is a noble ode, tracing our Lord's advent back to the early covenant of God with the fathers and anticip...

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• Luke 1:58 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (57) Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. (58) And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rej...

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• Luke 1:58 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And her neighbours, and her cousins ,.... That lived in Hebron, and the parts adjacent, whether of the house of Aaron, or of the tribe of Judah; to both which she was related, and who dwelt near her...

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• Luke 1:58 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. Ver. 58. The Lord had showed great mercy ] And the greater, because in her old a...

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• Luke 1:58 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Now Elisabeth's full time came Exactly according to the prediction of the angel; that she should be delivered Though this child was conceived in the womb by a miracle, he continued in the womb ac...

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• Luke 1:58 - 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 1:58 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Birth of John the Baptist.       57 Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.   58 An...

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• Luke 1:58 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Luke 1:57 "

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• Luke 1:58 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 1:58 . Cousins .—Rather, “kinsfolk,” which was the original meaning of “cousins.” How the Lord .—Rather, “that the Lord” (R.V.). Luke 1:59 . On the eighth day .—The state...

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• Luke 1:58 - 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 1:58 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should he delivered The nativity of John the Baptist That which was miraculous at the beginning became natural towards the close. This is seen in the ca...

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• Luke 1:58 - 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 1:58 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Birth of John the Baptist. The birth and circumcision of John:

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• Luke 1:58 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 12:26 ; Genesis 21:6 ; Isaiah 66:10 ; Isaiah 66:9 ; Luke 1:14 ; Luke 1:25 ; Psalms 113:9 ; Romans 12:15 ; Ruth 4:14-17

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• Luke 1:58 - 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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