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Verse 35. _THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE_] This conception
shall take place _suddenly_, and the Holy Spirit himself shall be the
grand operator. _The power_, δυναμις, the miracle-working
power,...
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THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE - See Matthew 1:20.
THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST ... - This evidently means that the body of
Jesus would be created by the direct power of God. It was not by
ordinary g...
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THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
Analysis and Annotations
I. The Birth and Childhood -- Chapter 1-2:52
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The Introduction. (Luke 1:1)_
2. Zacharias and Elizabeth; the Vision. (Luke 1:5)
3. John th...
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PREDICTION OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS. Lk. alone gives this narrative.
Three or four months before _the birth of Elisabeth's_ child, Gabriel
comes to Nazareth and announces to Mary, a virgin betrothed to o...
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In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of
Galilee called Nazareth, to a maiden who was betrothed to a man called
Joseph, who belonged to the house of David. The maiden's name...
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AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
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SHALL OVERSHADOW. Compare Exodus 33:22.Mark 9:7.
THEREFORE. wherefore.
THAT HOLY THING. See Heb 7:26. 1 Peter 2:22, and note on Matthew 2
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_shall overshadow thee_ as with the Shechinah and Cloud of Glory (see
on Luke 2:9; Luke 9:34). See the treatise on the Shechinah in
Meuschen, pp. 701 739. On the high theological mystery see Pearson _...
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The Annunciation
26. _in the sixth month_ i. e. after the vision of Zachariah. This is
the only passage which indicates the age of John the Baptist, as half
a year older than our Lord.
_Galilee_ Thus...
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THE ANNUNCIATION...
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ἘΚ ΣΟΥ͂ omitted by nearly all the best MSS.
35. ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ ἍΓΙΟΝ. The phrase is _anarthrous_ (i.e. the
article is omitted) because ‘Holy Spirit’ is here a proper name.
ἘΠΙΣΚΙΆΣΕΙ ΣΟΙ, as with the Shechi...
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VER 34. THEN SAID MARY TO THE ANGEL, HOW SHALL THIS BE, SEEING I KNOW
NOT A MAN? 35. AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID TO HER, THE HOLY GHOST
SHALL COME UPON YOU, AND THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST SHALL OVER...
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_THE BIRTH OF JESUS WAS ANNOUNCED -- LUKE 1:26-56:_ A month after the
announcement of John's birth God sent Gabriel to Nazareth in Galilee
with a message for a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to a...
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ΈΠΕΛΕΎΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ
(G1904) нисходить,
ΕΠΙΣΚΙΆΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΕΠΙΣΚΙΆΖΩ (G1982)
осенять. Хотя сами по себе эти слова не
имеют сексуального значения, они
характери...
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DISCOURSE: 1467
THE ANGEL’S MESSAGE TO MARY
Luke 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: the...
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THEN SAID MARY UNTO THE ANGEL, &C.— When Mary heard Gabriel say that
she was to conceive the Messiah, being conscious of her virginity, she
found the matter above her comprehension, and therefore desi...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_The Promise of the Birth of Jesus
Scripture_
Luke 1:26-38 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from
God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betro...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 4
Predictions of the Redeemer (Luke 1:26-56)
26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of
Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man...
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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...
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18 Zacharias does not believe the glad news. Hence he is stricken
dumb, for unbelief has no right to speak of the things of God.
19 Gabriel gave Daniel the explanation of two of his visions
(Dan_8:16...
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1:35 born (f-30) Or 'begotten.'...
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THE HOLY GHOST, etc.] Mary would doubtless understand 'the Holy Ghost'
impersonally, as the creative power of God, but St. Luke's readers
would understand it personally, as frequently in the Acts. The...
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THE ANNUNCIATION (see on Matthew 1). Wonder and awe and adoring praise
are the emotions with which Christians have ever regarded the
unspeakable condescension of Him who, 'when He took upon Him human...
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BIRTH OF JOHN. THE ANNUNCIATION
1-4. Preface. To write a preface to a history is not a Jewish, but a
classical custom, and by following it St. Luke shows himself a true
Gentile, trained in Greek cult...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
THE AUTHOR
Luke wrote two books of the *New Testament (NT). Luke’s *Gospel
tells the story of the life and work of Jesus. Luke’s second book,
Acts, continues...
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THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE. — See Note on Luke 1:15. Here,
however, the context would suggest to one familiar with the sacred
writings, another aspect of the Spirit’s work, as quickening the...
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CHAPTER 3
THE GOSPEL PSALMS.
UNLIKE modern church-builders, St. Luke sets his chancel by the porch.
No sooner have we passed through the vestibule of his Gospel than we
find ourselves within a circle...
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CHAPTER 4
THE VIRGIN MOTHER.
THE Beautiful Gate of the Jewish Temple opened into the "Court of the
Women"-so named from the fact that they were not allowed any nearer
approach towards the Holy Place....
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_The announcement to Mary_....
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Πνεῦμα Αγιον : without the article because a proper name =
the well-known Holy Spirit, say some (Meyer, Farrar), but more
probably because the purpose is not to indicate the person by whom,
etc., but...
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THE PROMISED MESSIAH
Luke 1:26-38
The narrative is artlessly simple and natural and is its own complete
vindication. No human genius could have invented it. Compare it, for
instance, with all the or...
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And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost (g) shall
come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee:
therefore also that (h) holy thing which shall be born of thee sh...
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The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, &c. By the divine power thou
shalt bring forth, and yet remain always a pure virgin. --- And
therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee, shall be called
...
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MARY'S SUBMISSION
34-38. _“And Mary said, Behold the handmaiden of the Lord: may it he
unto me according to thy word.”_ Good Lord, give us the faith of
Mary, that we may perfectly submit to Thy Word a...
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FIRST PART: THE NARRATIVES OF THE INFANCY, LUKE 1:5 TO LUKE 2:52
Both the first and the third Gospel open with a cycle of narratives
relating to the birth and childhood of Jesus. These narratives do n...
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SECOND NARRATIVE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS, LUKE 1:26-38
The birth of John the Baptist, like that of Isaac, was due to a higher
power; but it did not certainly transcend the limits of the na...
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3. _The manner in which the message was received: Luke 1:34-38_. 34.
“ _Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know
not a man?_ 35. _And the angel answered and said unto her, The H...
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(26) And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a
city of Galilee named Nazareth, (27) To a virgin espoused to a man
whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and
the virgin's...
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The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of
either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious
reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
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_THE VIRGIN BIRTH_
‘That which is to be born shall be called holy, the Son of God.’
Luke 1:35 (R.V.).
The doctrine of the Virgin Birth is based on historical evidence,
which, when calmly and dispas...
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35._The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee _The angel does not explain
the manner, so as to satisfy curiosity, which there was no necessity
for doing. He only leads the virgin to contemplate the power of...
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Many had undertaken to give an account of that which was historically
received among Christians, as related to them by the companions of
Jesus; and Luke thought it well having followed these things fr...
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AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER,.... The angel gave her an
account of the manner in which what he had said should be effected, as
well as observed some things for the strengthening of her fai...
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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
c...
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Luke 1:35. "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 that shall be born of t...
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_Then said Mary, How shall this be_ How can I immediately conceive a
child, (for so the angel meant, and so she understood him to mean,)
_seeing I know not a man?_ This was not the language of distrus...
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THAT HOLY THING; the child whose conception was to be miraculously
caused by the Holy Spirit....
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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
C...
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The explanation of the miracle:...
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LUKE'S GOSPEL WRITTEN FOR A GENTILE RULER
(vs.1-4)
Luke's introduction shows that, though he was concerned about giving
exact information in this letter to Theophilus, he had not thought of
being an...
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26-38 We have here an account of the mother of our Lord; though we
are not to pray to her, yet we ought to praise God for her. Christ
must be born miraculously. The angel's address means only, Hail,...
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THE HOLY GHOST (who is also called here _the power of the Highest)
shall come upon thee; _ it is a phrase which signifieth a special and
peculiar influence of the Holy Spirit: thus we read of the prop...
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Dialogue of Justin
But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy, when the angel Gabriel
announced the good tidings to her that the Spirit of the Lord would
come upon her, and the power of the Highest w...
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Luke 1:35 And G2532 angel G32 answered G611 (G5679) said G2036 (G5627)
her G846 Holy G40 Spirit...
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The occurrence here narrated is called the _Annunciation_, ushering in
the _Miraculous Conception of Christ._ The account of Matthew
presupposes such a miraculous conception (Matthew 1:18-25). There,...
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Luke 1:35. HOLY GHOST, the Third Person of the Trinity. Comp. Matthew
1:18.
THE POWER OF THE MOST HIGH. The Holy Spirit is here represented as
‘power,' not strictly ‘the power' (as if He were not a P...
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SHALL OVERSHADOW THEE
(επισκιασε). A figure of a cloud coming upon her. Common in
ancient Greek in the sense of obscuring and with accusative as of
Peter's shadow in Acts 5:15. But we have seen it u...
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Luke 1:26
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 mi...
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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 extrem...
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Luke 1:26. _And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God
unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man
whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgi...
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Luke 1:5. _There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a
certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife
was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they...
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CONTENTS: Birth of John the Baptist foretold. Virgin birth of Jesus
foretold. Mary's visit to Elizabeth. Mary's praise because of
Jehovah's favor. Birth of John the Baptist.
CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit,...
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Luke 1:1. _Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order
a declaration of those things,_ which within a short compass of years
have been acted and accomplished among us. In the first age,...
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MARY SAID TO THE ANGEL. Compare what the angel told Joseph in Matthew
1:19-25_ (see notes there),_ and see what Christ taught about divorce
in Matthew 19:1-9_ (see notes there)._...
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_The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee_
OF CHRIST’S INCARNATION
These words are the angel’s answer to Mary, who, understanding the
angel as speaking of a thing presently to be done before Joseph and
s...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:35 The HOLY SPIRIT will perform a great miracle,
so that Mary will become pregnant without having sexual relations with
a man. THEREFORE indicates that Jesus’ holiness comes from h...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:5 The Infancy Narrative. The opening (Luke 1:8)
and conclusion (Luke 2:21) of this secti
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND BIRTH OF JESUS MATTHEW 1:18-25; LUKE 1:26-38
ANGEL TO JOSEPH ANGEL TO MARY HYPERLINK "TW://BIBLE.*?ID=40.1.18"
[VREF] Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his
m...
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VER. 35. _And the Angel answered... the Holy Ghost shall come upon
thee_, &c. Mark here that the Incarnation is limited only to the
Person of the Word, or Son of God: for He alone was incarnate and ma...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 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 r...
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EXPOSITION
THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail
the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever be an
interesting study. Here we shall never know the exact...
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Luke, the author of this third gospel, was called by Paul the apostle
"the beloved physician." There is some speculation that his patron was
a man by the name of Theophilus. In those days physicians w...
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Acts 8:37; Ephesians 2:3; Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26;
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Shall overshadow. "Denoting the mildest and most gentle operation of
divine power, that the divine fire should not consume Mary, but make
her fruitful" (Bengel). Compare Exodus 33:22; Mark 9:7. Compar...
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THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS
_Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the
annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
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THE REVELATIONS OF GOD
Luke 1:5
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We begin here a series of studies taken from the Gospel of Luke. This
is the Gospel that emphasizes the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of Man.
It wi...
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The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest
shall overshadow thee — The power of God was put forth by the Holy
Ghost, as the immediate Divine agent in this work: and so he exerte...