Luke 1:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Zacharias said unto the messenger, `Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?'

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  • Gen 17:17 : 17 And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'
  • Luke 1:34 : 34 And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?'
  • Gen 15:8 : 8 and he saith, `Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?'
  • Rom 4:19 : 19 and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,
  • Gen 18:12 : 12 and Abraham and Sarah `are' aged, entering into days -- the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah;
  • Num 11:21-23 : 21 And Moses saith, `Six hundred thousand footmen `are' the people in whose midst I `am'; and Thou, Thou hast said, Flesh I give to them, and they have eaten, a month of days! 22 Is flock and herd slaughtered for them, that one hath found for them? -- are all the fishes of the sea gathered for them -- that one hath found for them?' 23 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Is the hand of Jehovah become short? now thou dost see whether My word meeteth thee or not.'
  • Judg 6:36-40 : 36 And Gideon saith unto God, `If Thou art Saviour of Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken, 37 lo, I am placing the fleece of wool in the threshing-floor: if dew is on the fleece alone, and on all the earth drought -- then I have known that Thou dost save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken;' 38 and it is so, and he riseth early on the morrow, and presseth the fleece, and wringeth dew out of the fleece -- the fulness of the bowl, of water. 39 And Gideon saith unto God, `Let not Thine anger burn against me, and I speak only this time; let me try, I pray Thee, only this time with the fleece -- let there be, I pray Thee, drought on the fleece alone, and on all the earth let there be dew.' 40 And God doth so on that night, and there is drought on the fleece alone, and on all the earth there hath been dew.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 And the captain whom the king hath, by whose hand he hath been supported, answereth the man of God and saith, `Lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens -- shall this thing be?' and he saith, `Lo, thou art seeing it with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat.'
  • Isa 38:22 : 22 And Hezekiah saith, `What `is' the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.

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  • Luke 1:19-32
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    19And the messenger answering said to him, `I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,

    20and lo, thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, till the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou didst not believe my words, that shall be fulfilled in their season.'

    21And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and wondering at his tarrying in the sanctuary,

    22and having come out, he was not able to speak to them, and they perceived that a vision he had seen in the sanctuary, and he was beckoning to them, and did remain dumb.

    23And it came to pass, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he went away to his house,

    24and after those days, his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying --

    25`Thus hath the Lord done to me, in days in which He looked upon `me', to take away my reproach among men.'

    26And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which `is' Nazareth,

    27to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name `is' Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin `is' Mary.

    28And the messenger having come in unto her, said, `Hail, favoured one, the Lord `is' with thee; blessed `art' thou among women;'

    29and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was reasoning of what kind this salutation may be.

    30And the messenger said to her, `Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour with God;

    31and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus;

    32he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,

  • Luke 1:11-15
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    11And there appeared to him a messenger of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of the perfume,

    12and Zacharias, having seen, was troubled, and fear fell on him;

    13and the messenger said unto him, `Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,

    14and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

    15for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

  • Luke 1:34-38
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    34And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?'

    35And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

    36and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

    37because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

    38And Mary said, `Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,' and the messenger went away from her.

  • Luke 1:66-67
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    66and all who heard did lay them up in their hearts, saying, `What then shall this child be?' and the hand of the Lord was with him.

    67And Zacharias his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and did prophesy, saying,

  • Luke 1:5-8
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    5There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth;

    6and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

    7and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.

    8And it came to pass, in his acting as priest, in the order of his course before God,

  • Luke 1:17
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    17and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

  • Luke 1:40-45
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    40and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.

    41And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

    42and spake out with a loud voice, and said, `Blessed `art' thou among women, and blessed `is' the fruit of thy womb;

    43and whence `is' this to me, that the mother of my Lord might come unto me?

    44for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb;

    45and happy `is' she who did believe, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.'

  • Luke 1:57-60
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    57And to Elisabeth was the time fulfilled for her bringing forth, and she bare a son,

    58and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

    59And it came to pass, on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias,

    60and his mother answering said, `No, but he shall be called John.'

  • Judg 13:3
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    3and a messenger of Jehovah appeareth unto the woman, and saith unto her, `Lo, I pray thee, thou `art' barren, and hast not borne; when thou hast conceived, then thou hast borne a son.

  • Luke 1:75-76
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    75To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

    76And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.

  • Matt 1:20
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    20And on his thinking of these things, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream appeared to him, saying, `Joseph, son of David, thou mayest not fear to receive Mary thy wife, for that which in her was begotten `is' of the Holy Spirit,

  • Gen 18:13
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    13and Sarah laugheth in her heart, saying, `After I have waxed old I have had pleasure! -- my lord also `is' old!'

  • Matt 1:18
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    18And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit,

  • Matt 1:22
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    22And all this hath come to pass, that it may be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

  • Gen 17:17
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    17And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'

  • Luke 1:48
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    48Because He looked on the lowliness of His maid-servant, For, lo, henceforth call me happy shall all the generations,