The Bible for beginners for 11 July 2019

New American Standard Bible (en)

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Luke, Chapter 1, verses 57-80

⁵⁷ John Is Born, ⁶⁷ Zacharias’s Prophecy

⁵⁷ Now the time^an Lit was fulfilledhad come for Elizabeth to give birth, and she gave birth to a son. ⁵⁸ Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had^ao Lit magnifieddisplayed His great mercy toward her; and they were rejoicing with her.	58 Gen 19:19
⁵⁹ And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias,^ap Lit after the name ofafter his father. ⁶⁰ But his mother answered and said, “No indeed; but he shall be called John.” ⁶¹ And they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by that name.” ⁶² And they made signs to his father, as to what he wanted him called. ⁶³ And he asked for a tablet and wrote as follows, “His name is John.” And they were all astonished. ⁶⁴ And at once his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he began to speak in praise of God. ⁶⁵ Fear came on all those living around them; and all these matters were being talked about in all the hill country of Judea. ⁶⁶ All who heard them kept them in mind, saying, “What then will this child turn out to be?” For the hand of the Lord was certainly with him.	59 Gen 17:12 Lev 12:3 Luk 2:21 Php 3:5 60 Luk 1:13 Luk 1:63 62 Luk 1:22 63 Luk 1:13 Luk 1:60 64 Luk 1:20 65 Luk 1:39 66 Act 11:21
⁶⁷ And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:	67 Luk 1:41 Act 2:4 Act 2:8 Act 9:17 Joe 2:28
⁶⁸ “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people, ⁶⁹ And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of David His servant— ⁷⁰ As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from of old— ⁷¹ ^aq Or DeliveranceSalvation FROM OUR ENEMIES, And FROM THE HAND OF ALL WHO HATE US; ⁷² To show mercy toward our fathers, And to remember His holy covenant, ⁷³ The oath which He swore to Abraham our father, ⁷⁴ To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, ⁷⁵ In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days. ⁷⁶ “And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; For you will go on BEFORE THE LORD TO PREPARE HIS WAYS; ⁷⁷ To give to His people the knowledge of salvation ^ar Or Consisting inBy the forgiveness of their sins, ⁷⁸ Because of the tender mercy of our God, With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us, ⁷⁹ TO SHINE UPON THOSE WHO SIT IN DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, To guide our feet into the way of peace.”	68 Ki1 1:48 Psa 41:13 Psa 72:18 Psa 106:48 Luk 1:71 Luk 2:38 Heb 9:12 69 Sa1 2:1 Sa1 2:10 Psa 18:2 Psa 89:17 Psa 132:17 Eze 29:21 Mat 1:1 70 Rom 1:2 Act 3:21 71 Luk 1:68 Psa 106:10 72 Mic 7:20 Psa 105:8 Psa 105:42 Psa 106:45 73 Gen 22:16 Heb 6:13 75 Eph 4:24 76 Mat 11:9 Luk 1:32 Mal 3:1 Mat 11:10 Mar 1:2 Luk 7:27 Luk 1:17 77 Jer 31:34 Mar 1:4 78 Mal 4:2 Eph 5:14 Pe2 1:19 79 Isa 9:2 Isa 59:8 Mat 4:16
⁸⁰ And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel.	80 Luk 2:40

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1:60 His mother said - Doubtless by revelation, or a particular impulse from God.

1:66 The hand of the Lord - The peculiar power and blessing of God.

1:67 And Zacharias prophesied - Of things immediately to follow.But it is observable, he speaks of Christ chiefly; of John only, as it were, incidentally.

1:69 A horn - Signifies honour, plenty, and strength. A horn of salvation - That is, a glorious and mighty Saviour.

1:70 His prophets, who have been since the world began - For there were prophets from the very beginning.

1:74 To serve him without fear - Without any slavish fear. Here is the substance of the great promise. That we shall be always holy, always happy: that being delivered from Satan and sin, from every uneasy and unholy temper, we shall joyfully love and serve God, in every thought, word, and work.

1:76 And thou, child - He now speaks to John; yet not as a parent, but as a prophet.

1:77 To give knowledge of salvation by the remission of sins - The knowledge of the remission of our sins being the grand instrument of present and eternal salvation, Heb 8:11-12. But the immediate sense of the words seems to be, to preach to them the Gospel doctrine of salvation by the remission of their sins.

1:78 The day spring - Or the rising sun; that is, Christ.

NOTES

In this episode there is one circumstance that appears strange if ethnographic details are taken into account. The point is that among Jews a son can receive his father's name only if...

On the day of the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Church offers us readings that tell of the relationship between God and His chosen people. And although John is first mentioned only in the New Testament, he has the most direct connection with all the preceding history of Israel. Sometimes he is spoken of as...

Today's reading completes the evangelist's account of the birth of John the Baptist. It is notable that Luke's conclusion of the account of this event follows immediately after...

Today's reading completes the evangelist's account of the birth of John the Baptist. It is notable that Luke's conclusion of the account of this event follows immediately after the account of the Annunciation, which turns out to be included within the account of John's miraculous conception and birth. This composition of the first chapter of the Gospel is clearly not accidental. Each of the evangelists describes in his own way the reality of what theologians today call the Incarnation. For Luke, as we can see, it has first of all a historical, or more precisely, a philosophy-of-history dimension.

This approach was not something completely new: the sacred texts that existed in early Christian times (the Pentateuch, the Former Prophets, and the Latter Prophets) were likewise works concerned with the meaning of history. They presented the history of the people of God as the history of Revelation. And the history of Revelation was, naturally, above all the history of God's relationship with the human being. It is no surprise that it was chiefly the history of prophets and righteous people: one can learn about revelation only through the testimony of those who hear God and are not afraid to testify to what they have heard.

For Luke, who knew how Jesus evaluated the ministry of John the Baptist (Luke 7:28), this prophet clearly became a symbol of prophetic ministry as such, a kind of quintessence of the entire prophetic tradition. It is no accident that the evangelist describes his miraculous birth in such detail, as if making it clear that God Himself points to John as the one who will complete what the prophets of former times had begun. And Luke describes the birth of the Messiah-Christ as an event that proves to be the center and meaning of the whole history of Revelation.

In this respect the composition of the first chapter partly resembles the composition of an Eastern icon, where what is shown in the center and in the foreground is usually not what three-dimensional perspective requires, but what is the center of meaning in what is depicted. In Luke, this composition has an additional meaning: the Nativity of Christ is woven into the fabric of history, even if it is portrayed symbolically, and yet it is entirely real. In this way Luke expressed the truth of what today is usually called the Incarnation, without which the whole history of Revelation would have remained incomplete.

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