Luke 1:18-38 ESV

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 1:36-37

What a particular notice doth God take of the children of men! he knoweth our relations: thy cousin Elisabeth. Here some make a question how Elisabeth, who was one of the daughters of Aaron, Luke 1:5, and consequently of the tribe of Levi, could be cousin to Mary, who was of the house of David, and consequently of the tribe of Judah, (as our evangelist proveth, Luke 1:3), because of the law, Numbers 36:6,Numbers 36:7. But cousin may be taken in a large sense, as Paul calleth all the Jews his... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 1:38

Once have I spoken, (saith Job, Job 40:5) but I will not answer. In like manner the virgin speaketh: I will dispute no more; I am the Lord’s servant, let him do with me whatsoever he pleaseth. This phrase, Behold the handmaid of the Lord, doth not speak her the lady and queen of heaven, (as the papists style her), but it speaketh her humility and readiness to give up herself to the Lord’s pleasure, her assent and consent unto God. She addeth a prayer, that God would do according to what the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 1:5-25

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 1:5. Herod, the king of Judæa.—He also ruled over Galilee, Samaria, and the greater part of Peræa. He was the son of Antipater, an Edomite, and had been imposed upon the Jewish nation by the Romans. The sovereignty of Herod and the enrolment under Cæsar Augustus (Luke 2:1) are indications of the fact that the sceptre had departed from Judah (Genesis 49:10), and that the appearance of the Messiah might now be looked for. A certain priest.—Not the high priest. Of the course of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 1:26-38

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 1:26. The sixth month.—I.e. not of the year: the reference is to the time indicated in Luke 1:24. Nazareth—St. Luke alone informs us that this village was the place of Mary’s residence before the birth of Jesus; from St. Matthew’s narrative we might have inferred that it was Bethlehem. The two Gospels are thus shown to be independent of each other, though there is no contradiction between them. Nazareth was an obscure village; it is not mentioned in the Old Testament, the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:20

Luke 1:20 Unbelief and dumbness are as fountain and stream, cause and effect. It is written, observes Paul in his second letter to the Church at Corinth, "I believed, therefore have I spoken;" we also believe, and therefore speak. Faith opens the lips, unbelief closes them. There is a noisy unbelief as well as a dumb unbelief. But the loud unbelief is a general faithlessness in all Divine testimony; while the dumb unbelief is lack of faith in some particular word of God. We are speaking, not of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:26

Luke 1:26 The Great Gulf. Consider the lasting distinction between the condition of the rich man and of Lazarus which the text brings before us. Abraham says that between the rich man and Lazarus a great gulf was fixed, so that none could pass from one side to the other. A great gulf fixed; observe, it is no slight interval, no trifling difference, but it is a chasm, a gulf and a wide one; and, moreover, it is fixed, the word in the original Greek is quite as strong as that which our English... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:26-38

Luke 1:26-38 The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I. "The angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth." Never was a time when, humanly speaking, the promises of God might seem so much to have failed: the house of David had departed from the sight of men, was unknown and forgotten, and Israel itself under bondage to the heathen; the prince of this world seemed established above the sanctuary of God. But man's helplessness is God's opportunity, and nothing was... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:35

Luke 1:35 The Mystery of the Holy Incarnation. I. There are beings within the mind's easy conception that far overpass the glories of the statesman and the monarch of our earth. Men of even no extreme ardour of fancy, when once instructed as to the vastness of our universe, have yearned to know of the life and intelligence that animate and that guide those distant regions of creation which science has so abundantly and so wonderfully revealed; and have dared to dream of the communications that... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:38

Luke 1:38 The Call of God. It was the answer of profound and humble obedience to the greatest call ever addressed from heaven to a mortal creature. The call, sudden, undreamt of, overwhelming, interrupting in the most startling manner the daily course of an obscure human life, breaking in on its privacy, and laying on it the most awful of charges, was a call to prepare for being the instrument of the final and complete accomplishment of God's highest words and most amazing work. It is idle, it... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 1:35

DISCOURSE: 1467THE ANGEL’S MESSAGE TO MARYLuke 1:35; Luke 1:38. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.…And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word.AS none can tell what devices Satan is plotting for their ruin, or what snares he may bring them into; so none can tell what... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 1:36-37

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 1:38

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 1:5-25

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 1:26-38

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:20

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:26

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:26-38

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:35

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 1:38

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 1:35

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