Hebrews 4:14; Hebrews 9:24; Leviticus 16:17; Revelation 8:3
The whole multitude - This was the regular time of evening prayer, and multitudes came up to the temple to worship. Praying without - That is...
Prediction of the Birth of John the Baptist. Lk. alone gives the story, which perhaps existed independently. and had been preserved in Baptist circ...
praying. See App-134. at the time . at the hour. This was the signal.
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. The whole multitude - were praying - The incense was itself an emb...
The whole multitude, &c.— Because it sometimes happened, that, on ordinary week-days, few or none of the people attended the morning and evenin...
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without...
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. Luk...
Conception of John the Baptist. The rise of Christianity was preceded by a long period of four hundred years, during which prophecy was silent, and...
The whole multitude. — Knowing as we do from this Gospel, what hopes were cherished by devout hearts at this time, we may well believe that the pra...
Chapter 1 THE GENESIS OF THE GOSPEL. THE four walls and the twelve gates of the Seer looked in different directions, but together they guarded, a...
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 r...
the Beginning of the Good News Luke 1:1-12 The opening verses are very explicit. They are answer enough to those who question the story of our...
(5) There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of...
THE CHURCH’S POWER ‘And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.’ Luke 1:10 Both the parents of John,...
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without ,.... In the court of the Israelites, whilst Zacharias was in the holy place; though not...
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. Ver. 10. Praying without at the time of incense ] Song of Sol...
The whole multitude of the people , &c. The manner in which the evangelist expresses himself here, shows that a more than ordinary concourse of...
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 thi...
The Appearance of an Angel to Zacharias; The Birth of John Foretold; The Unbelief of Zacharias....
We are told, that the order of the Jewish daily service was this: twice in the day the priests whose course it was to minister, or such of them whose...
Zacharias Goes Up to the Temple and Is Promised a Son Who Will Prepare the Way for God's Messiah, and He is Made Dumb in God's Presence (1:5-25)....
‘And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the hour of incense.' Meanwhile at that hour of incense a fairly large crowd of worsh...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 1:5 . Herod, the king of Judæa .—He also ruled over Galilee, Samaria, and the greater part of Peræa. He was the son of Antip...
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 d...
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 be...
While he executed the priest’s office The priest’s office The duties of the priests were many and various. It was their awful and peculiar hon...
EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever b...
Zacharias in the Temple:
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. It so happened, or rather it came about by God's dispensation a...
The Seven Magnificats Selections from Luke 1:1-80 and Luke 2:1-52 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, w...
The Revelations of God Luke 1:5-79 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin here a series of studies taken from the Gospel of Luke. This is the Gospel that...
The people were praying without, at the time of the incense — So the pious Jews constantly did. And this was the foundation of that elegant figure,...
10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.