Luke 1:13

World English Bible (2000)

But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

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  • Judg 13:3-5 : 3 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son. 4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing: 5 for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."
  • 1 Sam 2:21 : 21 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
  • Ps 113:9 : 9 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.
  • Luke 1:30 : 30 The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
  • Acts 10:31 : 31 and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
  • Luke 1:60-63 : 60 His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John." 61 They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name." 62 They made signs to his father, what he would have him called. 63 He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.
  • Luke 2:21 : 21 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
  • Luke 24:36-40 : 36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace be to you." 37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
  • Isa 8:3 : 3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, "Call his name 'Maher Shalal Hash Baz.'
  • Ps 118:21 : 21 I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.
  • Hos 1:4 : 4 Yahweh said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
  • Hos 1:6 : 6 She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
  • Hos 1:9-9 : 9 He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'
  • Matt 1:21 : 21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."
  • Matt 14:27 : 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! It is I! Don't be afraid."
  • Matt 28:5 : 5 The angel answered the women, "Don't be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.
  • Mark 16:6 : 6 He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!
  • 2 Kgs 4:16-17 : 16 He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid." 17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
  • 1 Sam 1:20-23 : 20 It happened, when the time had come, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], "Because I have asked him of Yahweh." 21 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. 22 But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, "Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever." 23 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word." So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
  • Gen 17:10 : 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • Judg 6:23 : 23 Yahweh said to him, "Peace be to you! Don't be afraid. You shall not die."
  • Dan 10:12 : 12 Then he said to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I have come for your words' sake.

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  • Luke 1:11-12
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    85%

    11 An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

    12 Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.

  • Luke 1:14-15
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    14 You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

    15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

  • Luke 1:17-21
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    17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord."

    18 Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."

    19 The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.

    20 Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."

    21 The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.

  • Luke 1:23-32
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    23 It happened, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house.

    24 After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,

    25 "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men."

    26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

    27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary.

    28 Having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!"

    29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.

    30 The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

    31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name 'Jesus.'

    32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,

  • Luke 1:34-38
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    34 Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?"

    35 The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

    36 Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

    37 For everything spoken by God is possible."

    38 Mary said, "Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word." The angel departed from her.

  • Luke 1:5
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    5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

  • Luke 1:65-67
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    65 Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

    66 All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.

    67 His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

  • Judg 13:3
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    3 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

  • Luke 1:57-63
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    57 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she brought forth a son.

    58 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.

    59 It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.

    60 His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John."

    61 They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."

    62 They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.

    63 He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.

  • Luke 1:40-45
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    40 and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.

    41 It happened, when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, that the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

    42 She called out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

    43 Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

    44 For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!

    45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"

  • Matt 1:20-21
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    75%

    20 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

    21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."

  • Luke 1:76
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    76 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

  • Luke 1:7-8
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    7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

    8 Now it happened, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his division,

  • Matt 1:23
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    23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."

  • Judg 13:7
    71%

    7 but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"

  • Matt 1:25
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    25 and didn't know her sexually until she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.