Luke 1:68 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, ”

• Luke 1:68 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Blessed - See the notes at Matthew 5:3 . Hath visited - The word here rendered “visited” means properly “to look upon;” then to look upon in order “to know the state of anyone;” then to visi...

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• Luke 1:68 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath (g) visited and (h) redeemed his people, (g) That he has shown himself mindful of his people, to the extent that he came down from heaven himself to...

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• Luke 1:68 - 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 1:68 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Blessed . Hence the name "Benedictus" given to Zacharias's prophecy. God . the God. visited . lookedon. Not the same word as in Luke 1:48 . See App-133. redeemed . wrought. ransom for. Compar...

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• Luke 1:68 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  68. Blessed be the Lord God Zacharias commences with thanksgiving, and in the raptures of the prophetic spirit describes the fulfillment of the redemption formerly promised in Christ, on whi...

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• Luke 1:68 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1469 THE SONG OF ZACHARIAS Luke 1:67-75 . And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and r...

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• Luke 1:68 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for, etc. - Zacharias praises God for two grand benefits which he had granted to h...

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• Luke 1:68 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel;— "Let all honour and glory be ascribed to the Possessor and Governor of the world, the God of Israel, because he hath visited and redeemed his people." For God...

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• Luke 1:68 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, Blessed. There is not a word in this noble burst of divine song about his own relationship to this child, nor a...

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• Luke 1:68 - 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 1:68 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel. — The whole hymn is, like the Magnificat, pre-eminently Hebrew in character, almost every phrase having its counterpart in Psalm or Prophet; and, like it, has c...

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• Luke 1:68 - 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 1:68 - 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 1:68 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (67) And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, (68) Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: for he hath visited and redeemed his people, (69) And hath raised up an h...

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• Luke 1:68 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ,.... This was a form of blessing of long standing, Psalms 72:18 and very likely was in use, more or less, ever since Israel was distinguished from other nations,...

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• Luke 1:68 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, Ver. 68. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ] This is Hymnus Evangelicissimus, say both Bucer and Pellican. A m...

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• Luke 1:68 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel Who is also the God of the spirits of all flesh: but Zacharias, speaking of the work of redemption calls him only the God of Israel, because to Israel the propheci...

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• Luke 1:68 - 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 1:68 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Song of Zacharias.       67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,   68 Blessed be the Lo...

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• Luke 1:68 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 68-70. God is not the God of Israel only, but of all the nations of the earth also; but he is peculiarly called the God of Israel, both here and in many other places, Psalms 41:13 , Psalms...

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• Luke 1:68 - 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 1:68 - Scofield Reference Notes

  redeemed ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:24 ).

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• Luke 1:68 - 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 1:68 - 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 1:68 - 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 1:68 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A hymn of praise:

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• Luke 1:68 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 29:10 ; 1 Chronicles 29:20 ; 1 Kings 1:48 ; 1 Peter 1:3 ; Ephesians 1:3 ; Ephesians 1:7 ; Exodus 3:16 ; Exodus 3:17 ; Exodus 4:31 ; Genesis 14:20 ; Genesis 9:26 ; Luke 19:44...

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• Luke 1:68 - 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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