Luke 1:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And Zacharias saide vnto the Angel: By what token shall I know this? For I am olde, and my wyfe well stricken in yeres.

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  • Gen 17:17 : 17 But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?
  • Luke 1:34 : 34 Then said Marie vnto ye Angel: How shall this be, seing I knowe not a man?
  • Gen 15:8 : 8 And he sayde: Lorde God wherby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?
  • Rom 4:19 : 19 And he faynted not in the fayth, nor considered his owne body nowe dead, when he was almost an hundred yeres old, neither yet the deadnesse o Saraes wombe.
  • Gen 18:12 : 12 Therefore Sara laughed within her selfe, saying: Nowe I am waxed olde shal I geue my selfe to lust, and my Lorde olde also?
  • Num 11:21-23 : 21 And Moyses sayde: Sixe hundred thousand footemen are there of the people, among which I am: And thou hast sayd, I wyll geue them flesh, that they may eate a moneth long. 22 Shall the sheepe & the oxen be slayne for them, to finde them? either shall all the fishe of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffise them? 23 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Shall the Lordes hande be waxed short? Thou shalt see now whether my word shal come to passe vnto thee or not.
  • Judg 6:36-40 : 36 And Gedeon sayd vnto God: Yf thou wilt saue Israel by myne hand, as thou hast sayd: 37 Beholde, I wil put a fleece of wool in the treashing place: And if the dewe come on the fleece onely, and it be drye vpon all the earth besyde, then shall I be sure that thou wilt saue Israel by my hand, as thou saydest. 38 And it came so to passe: For he rose vp early on the morowe, & thrust the fleece together, and wrong the dewe therout, and fylled a bowle of water. 39 And Gedeon sayde agayne vnto God: Be not angry with me, that I speake once more, for I wil proue once agayne by the fleece. Let it be drye onely vpon the fleece, and dewe vpon al the ground. 40 And God dyd so that same nyght: For it was drye vpon the fleece only, & there was dewe on all the grounde.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then a certayne lorde (on whose hand the king leaned) aunswered the man of God, and sayde: Beholde, if the Lorde would make windowes in heaue, might this saying come to passe? He sayde: Behold, thou shalt see it with thyne eyes, but shalt not eate therof.
  • Isa 38:22 : 22 Then sayd Hezekia: O what a miracle is this, that I shall go vp into the house of the Lorde.
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 And they had no chylde, because that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were nowe well stricken in age.

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  • Luke 1:19-32
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    19 And the Angel aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: I am Gabriel that stande in the presence of God, and am sent to speake vnto thee, and to shewe thee these glad tydynges.

    20 And beholde, thou shalt be dumbe, & not be able to speake, vntyll the day that these thynges be perfourmed, because thou beleuedst not my wordes, whiche shalbe fulfylled in their season.

    21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marueyled that he taried so long in the temple.

    22 And when he came out, he coulde not speake vnto them. And they perceaued that he had seene a vision in the temple: For he beckened vnto them, and remayned speachlesse.

    23 And it came to passe, that assoone as the dayes of his office were out, he departed into his owne house.

    24 And after those dayes, his wyfe Elizabeth conceaued, and hyd her selfe fiue monethes, saying:

    25 Thus hath the Lorde dealt with me, in the dayes wherein he loked on me, to take fro me my rebuke among men.

    26 And in the sixth moneth, the Angel Gabriel was sent from God, vnto a citie of Galilee, named Nazareth,

    27 To a virgin, spoused to a man whose name was Ioseph, of the house of Dauid, and the virgins name was Marie.

    28 And the Angel went in vnto her, and sayde: Hayle thou that art freelie beloued, the Lorde is with thee, blessed art thou among women.

    29 And when she sawe hym, she was troubled at his saying, and caste in her mynde what maner of salutation that shoulde be.

    30 And the Angel saide vnto her: Feare not Marie, for thou hast founde grace with God.

    31 For beholde, thou shalt conceaue in thy wombe, and beare a sonne, & shalt call his name Iesus.

    32 He shalbe great, & shalbe called ye sonne of the hyest: & the Lord God shall geue vnto him the seate of his father Dauid:

  • Luke 1:11-15
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    11 And there appeared vnto hym an Angel of the Lorde, standyng on the ryght syde of the aulter of incence.

    12 And when Zacharias sawe him, he was troubled, and feare came vpo him.

    13 But the Angel sayde vnto him: Feare not Zacharie, for thy prayer is hearde: and thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare thee a sonne, & thou shalt cal his name Iohn.

    14 And thou shalt haue ioy and gladnesse, and many shall reioyce at his birth.

    15 For he shalbe great in the syght of the Lorde, and shall neither drynke wine nor strong drynke: and he shalbe fylled with the holy ghost, euen from his mothers wombe.

  • Luke 1:34-38
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    34 Then said Marie vnto ye Angel: How shall this be, seing I knowe not a man?

    35 And the Angel aunswered, & saide vnto her: The holy ghost shall come vpon thee, & the power of the hyest shall ouershadowe thee. Therefore also that holy thyng whiche shalbe borne, shalbe called the sonne of God.

    36 And beholde, thy cosin Elizabeth, she hath also conceaued a sonne in her olde age: & this is her sixth moneth, whiche was called barren.

    37 For with God, shall nothyng be vnpossible.

    38 And Marie saide: Beholde the handmayden of the Lorde, be it vnto me accordyng to thy worde. And the Angel departed from her.

  • Luke 1:66-67
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    66 And all they that hearde them, layde them vp in their heartes, saying: What maner of chylde shall this be? And the hande of the Lorde was with hym.

    67 And his father Zacharias was filled with ye holy ghost, & prophesied, saying.

  • Luke 1:5-8
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    5 There was in the dayes of Herode the kyng of Iurie, a certaine priest, named Zacharias, of the course of Abia, & his wyfe was of the daughters of Aaron, & her name was Elizabeth.

    6 They were both ryghteous before God, and walked in all the lawes and ordinaunces of the Lorde, that no man coulde fynde fault with them.

    7 And they had no chylde, because that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were nowe well stricken in age.

    8 And it came to passe, that when Zacharie executed the priestes office before God, as his course came,

  • 17 And he shall go before hym, with the spirite and power of Elias, to turne the heartes of the fathers to the chyldren, and the disobedient to the wisedome of the iust men, to make redy a perfect people for the Lorde.

  • Luke 1:40-45
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    40 And entred into the house of Zacharie, and saluted Elizabeth.

    41 And it came to passe, that when Elizabeth hearde the salutation of Marie, the babe sprang in her wombe, and Elizabeth was fylled with the holy ghost.

    42 And she cryed with a loude voyce, and saide: Blessed art thou among women, because ye fruite of thy wombe is blessed.

    43 And whence commeth this to me, that ye mother of my lord should come to me?

    44 For loe, assoone as the voyce of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe sprang in my wombe for ioy.

    45 And blessed is she that beleued: For those thinges shalbe perfourmed, which were tolde her from the Lorde.

  • Luke 1:57-60
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    57 Elizabethes tyme came, that she shoulde be deliuered, and she brought foorth a sonne.

    58 And her neyghbours, and her cosins hearde howe the Lorde hadde shewed great mercy vpo her, and they reioyced with her.

    59 And it came to passe, that on the eyght day they came to circumcise the chylde, and called his name Zacharias, after the name of his father.

    60 And his mother aunswered, and said: not so, but he shalbe called Iohn.

  • 3 And the angell of the Lord appeared vnto the woman, & sayde vnto her: Beholde, nowe thou art barren, & bearest not, but thou shalt conceaue, and beare a sonne.

  • Luke 1:75-76
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    75 All the dayes of our life, in such holynesse and righteousnes as are accepted before hym.

    76 And thou childe shalt be called the prophete of the hyghest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lorde, to prepare his wayes.

  • 20 But whyle he thought these thinges, beholde, the Angell of the Lord appeared vnto hym in a dreame, saying: Ioseph, thou sonne of Dauid, feare not to take vnto thee Marie thy wife, for that which is conceaued in her, is of the holy ghost.

  • 13 And God said vnto Abraham: wherfore dyd Sara laugh, saying, shall I of a suertie beare a chylde, which am olde?

  • 18 The birth of Iesus Christe was on this wise. When as his mother Marie was betrouthed to Ioseph (before they came together) she was founde with chylde of the holy ghost.

  • 22 (All this was done, that it myght be fulfilled, which was spoken of the lorde by the prophete, saying:

  • 17 But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?

  • 48 For he hath loked on the lowe degree of his handmayden: For loe, now from hencefoorth shal all generations call me blessed.