Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - Luke 1:13 - 1:13
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Is heard (eisēkousthē). First aorist passive indicative. A sort of timeless aorist, “was heard” when made, and so “is heard” now. Probably the prayer was for a son in spite of the great age of Elisabeth, though the Messianic redemption is possible also.
John (Iōanēn). The word means that God is gracious. The mention of the name should have helped Zacharias to believe. The message of the angel (Luk 1:13-17) takes on a metrical form when turned into Hebrew (Ragg) and it is a prose poem in Greek and English like Luk 1:30-33, Luk 1:35-37, Luk 1:42-45, Luk 1:46-55, Luk 1:68-70; Luk 2:10-12, Luk 2:14, Luk 2:29-32, Luk 2:34-35. Certainly Luke has preserved the earliest Christian hymns in their oldest sources. He is the first critic of the sources of the Gospels and a scholarly one.