Luke 1:13 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 1:13

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: because thy supplication is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

KJV

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

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Commentary

4 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (373)

(in vita Anton.) Whereby it is not difficult to discern between good and bad spirits, for if joy has succeeded to fear, we may know that relief has come from God, because the peace of the soul is a sign of the Divine Presence; but if the fear remains unshaken, it is an enemy who is seen.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Thou shalt call his name John - John signifies the grace or favour of Jehovah. A name well suiting the person, who was afterward so highly in favour with God, and endued with abundance of grace; and who opened a way to the most glorious dispensation of grace in the Messiah's kingdom.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But God will now, in giving this mercy, look a great way back to the prayers that he had made long since for and with his wife, as Isaac for and with his, Gen. xxv. Note, Prayers of faith are filed in heaven, and are not forgotten, though the thing prayed for is not presently given in.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Thy prayer is heard - That is, thy prayer for offspring. This, among the Jews, was an object of intense desire. No prospect was more gloomy to them than that of dying childless, so that their “name should perish.” Special pains, therefore, had been taken in the law to keep up the names of families by requiring a man to marry his brother’s wife, Deu 25:5.

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Original language & word study

28 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Εἶπεν	Eipen	Said	G2036 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἄγγελος·	angelos	angel;	G32 →
μὴ	mē	Not	G3361 →
φοβοῦ	phobou	do fear	G5399 →
Ζαχαρία·	Zacharia	Zechariah;	G2197 →
διότι	dioti	because	G1360 →
εἰσηκούσθη	eisēkousthē	has been heard	G1522 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
δέησίς	deēsis	prayer	G1162 →
σου,	sou	of you,	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
γυνή	gunē	wife	G1135 →
σου	sou	of You	G4771 →
Ἐλισάβετ	Elisabet	Elizabeth	G1665 →
γεννήσει	gennēsei	will bear	G1080 →
υἱόν	huion	a son	G5207 →
σοι,	soi	to you,	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
καλέσεις	kaleseis	you will call	G2564 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ὄνομα	onoma	name	G3686 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
Ἰωάννην.	Iōannēn	John.	G2491 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 25:21
Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 33:13
  And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
- Ezra 8:23
  So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.
- Isaiah 58:9
  Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and…
- Romans 9:10–12
  Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
Through
Psalms 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
leads to
- Psalms 68:6
  God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- 1 Samuel 2:5
  The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- Genesis 21:5–7
  Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
- Genesis 30:22–23
  Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,