Luke 1:34 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 1:34

“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

KJV

Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

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Commentary

1 voice

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (373)

(Ep. ad Epictetum.) For we confess that which then was taken up from Mary to be of the nature of man and a most real body, the very same also according to nature with our own body. For Mary is our sister, seeing we have all descended from Adam.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

How, &c.--not the unbelief of Zacharias, "Whereby shall I know this?" but, taking the fact for granted, "How is it to be, so contrary to the unbroken law of human birth?" Instead of reproof, therefore, her question is answered in mysterious detail.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Εἶπεν	Eipen	Said	G2036 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
Μαριὰμ	Mariam	Mary	G3137 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἄγγελον·	angelon	angel;	G32 →
πῶς	pōs	How	G4459 →
ἔσται	estai	will be	G1510 →
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
ἐπεὶ	epei	since	G1893 →
ἄνδρα	andra	a man	G435 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
γινώσκω;¶	ginōskō	I know?	G1097 →

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 walk5

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
Acts 9:6
“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
leads to
- Acts 22:10
  Then I asked, ‘What should I do, Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’ He told me. ‘There you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’
- Acts 26:16
  ‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I…
- 1 Timothy 1:14–16
  And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 10:3
  Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
- Acts 10:32
  Therefore send to Joppa for Simon, who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’

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