Luke 2:37 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. ”

Luke 2:37 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years - That is, she was about 84 years of age. It does not mean that she had been a widow for that long time. Fastings and prayers - Constant...
Luke 2:37 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Anna. Simeon has a counterpart in a centenarian widow who spends her whole life in ascetic devotion in the Temple. She adds her prophetic testimony to his, and afterwards speaks of the child to the...
Luke 2:37 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

not. Greek. ou. App-105. served. Same as Luke 1:74 .
Luke 2:37 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

37. She departed not from the temple This is a hyperbolical expression; but the meaning is plain, that Anna was almost constantly in the temple. Luke adds, that she worshipped God with fas...
Luke 2:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. Departed not from the temple - Attended constant...
Luke 2:37 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And there was one Anna— While these things were transacting, there came into the temple an aged woman named Anna, whose mortification to the world partly appeared by her having lived a widow ever...
Luke 2:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And she was a widow of about fourscore an...
Luke 2:37 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Birth and Childhood of Jesus 1-5. The census of Quirinius. There are two historical difficulties in connexion with St. Luke's mention of the census of Quirinius: (1) There is no direct evidence, e...
Luke 2:37 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A widow of about fourscore and four years. — The better MSS. read, “ up to the point of fourscore and four years,” pointing to the fact that this was the duration of her widowhood. Assuming her to...
Luke 2:37 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Aged Simeon's Prophetic Blessing Luke 2:25-39 Two aged watchers welcomed the King; but no one else, of all the crowds who went and came, guessed that the Messenger of the Covenant had sudde...
Luke 2:37 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, under the yoke of an oppressor. Moreover, by the exigency of the circumstances, He was born amid the homeless crowd. This was according to the divine arrangement and fore...
Luke 2:37 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(36) And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; (37) And she was a wido...
Luke 2:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years ,.... Which is not the date of her whole age, as some have thought, but of her widowhood state, as distinct from her marriage state, and the tim...
Luke 2:37 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. Ver. 37. A widow of about eighty-four years...
Luke 2:37 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And there was one Anna, a prophetess A person of some note; she was a widow of about fourscore and four years These were the years of her life, and not of her widowhood only; who departed not fr...
Luke 2:37 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-7) God in His sovereign wisdom and power at this time ordered the events of man's government to accomplish His own will. Caesar Augustus decreed that all the wor...
Luke 2:37 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Christ and Simeon in the Temple; Anna in the Temple. 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the...
Luke 2:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Luke 2:37 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, and she had been a widow eve...
Luke 2:37 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Luke 2:21 . The child .—The best MSS. read “Him.” Luke 2:22 . Her purification .—The true reading is, “ their purification” (R.V.). The mother was ceremonially unclean by chil...
Luke 2:37 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Luke 2:1-9 . And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of...
Luke 2:37 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 2:1 . It came to pass in those days, when John was born, and when the Roman emperor, Augustus Cæsar, filled the throne, and was in the thirty first year of his reign, that, a decree was issue...
Luke 2:37 - The Biblical Illustrator

And there was one Anna, a prophetess First female testimony to Christ 1. Excited by long expectations. 2. Based on personal sight. 3. Given with full candour. 4. Sealed by holy walk....
Luke 2:37 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Luke 2:1-42 The Redeemer's birth . Luke 2:1 There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed ; more accurately, that there should be a r...
Luke 2:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The prophetess Anna:
Luke 2:37 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 2:2 ; 1 Timothy 5:5 ; Acts 26:7 ; Exodus 38:8 ; Psalms 135:1 ; Psalms 135:2 ; Psalms 22:2 ; Psalms 23:6 ; Psalms 27:4 ; Psalms 84:10 ; Psalms 84:4 ; Psalms 92:13 ; Revelation 3:...
Luke 2:37 - 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...
Luke 2:37 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fourscore and four years — These were the years of her life, not her widowhood only. Who departed not from the temple — Who attended there at all the stated hours of prayer. But served God with fas...

Luke 2:37 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Luke 2:37 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 2:37 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Luke 2:37 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 2:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Luke 2:37 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Luke 2:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Luke 2:37 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 2:37 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Luke 2:37 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Luke 2:37 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Luke 2:37 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Luke 2:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Luke 2:37 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Luke 2:37 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 2:37 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 2:37 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Luke 2:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Luke 2:37 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 2:37 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Luke 2:37 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Luke 2:37 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 2:37 - The Biblical Illustrator

Luke 2:37 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Luke 2:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Luke 2:37 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 2:37 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Luke 2:37 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes