Luke 1
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The Dedication to Theophilus
1Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled # Or events that have been accomplished, or events most surely believed among us, # Rm 4:21; 14:5; Col 2:2; 4:12; 1Th 1:5; 2Tm 4:17; Heb 6:11; 10:22 2just as the original eyewitnesses # Jn 15:27; Ac 1:21; 2Pt 1:16; 1Jn 1:1 and servants of the word # Ac 26:16; 1Co 4:1; Heb 2:3 handed them down to us. 3It also seemed good to me, since I have carefully investigated everything from the very first, to write to you in an orderly sequence, most honorable # Ac 23:26; 24:3; 26:25 Theophilus, # Ac 1:1 4so that you may know the certainty of the things about which you have been instructed. # Or informed # Ac 18:25; Rm 2:18; 1Co 14:19; Gl 6:6
Gabriel Predicts John’s Birth
5In the days of King Herod # Mt 2:1 of Judea, there was a priest of Abijah’s division # One of the 24 divisions of priests appointed by David for temple service; 1Ch 24:10 # 1Ch 24:10 named Zechariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6Both were righteous in God’s sight, # Gn 7:1; Ac 2:25; 8:21 living without blame # Php 2:15; 3:6; 1Th 3:13 according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord. 7But they had no children # Lit child because Elizabeth could not conceive, # Lit Elizabeth was sterile or barren and both of them were well along in years. # Lit in their days # Gn 4:1; 18:11; Jdg 13:2-3; 1Sm 1:2; 2:20; Ps 113:9; 127:3-5; Heb 11:11-12
8When his division was on duty # 1Ch 24:19; 2Ch 8:14; 31:2 and he was serving as priest before God, 9it happened that he was chosen by lot, # Jos 18:6,8,10; 1Ch 24:31; 25:8; 26:13-14; Neh 10:34; 11:1; Ac 1:26 according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense. # Ex 30:7-8 10At the hour of incense the whole assembly of the people was praying outside. 11An angel of the Lord # Mt 2:13-14; 28:2; Lk 2:9; Ac 5:19; 8:26; 12:7 appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense. # Mk 16:5; Ac 2:33 12When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and overcome with fear. # Lit and fear fell on him # Gn 21:17; Jdg 6:22-23; 2Kg 1:15; Mt 1:20; 28:5; Lk 2:10; Ac 10:3-4; 27:23-24 13But the angel said to him:
Do not be afraid, # Gn 15:1; Mt 14:27; Lk 1:30 Zechariah,
because your prayer has been heard. # Gn 25:21; 1Kg 8:45,49; 2Kg 20:5; Ps 6:9; Is 38:5
Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son,
and you will name him John. # Gn 16:11; 17:15,19; Is 8:3; Hs 1:4,9; Mt 1:20,23; Lk 1:60,63
14There will be joy and delight for you,
and many will rejoice at his birth.
15For he will be great in the sight of the Lord
and will never drink wine or beer. # Nm 6:3; Jdg 13:3-5; Mt 11:18; Lk 7:33
He will be filled with the Holy Spirit # Ex 28:3; 31:3; 35:31; Dt 34:9; Mc 3:8; Lk 1:41,67; Ac 2:4; 4:8,31; 7:55; 9:17; 13:9; 13:52; Eph 5:18
while still in his mother’s womb. # Is 44:2; Lk 1:41,44
16He will turn many of the sons of Israel
to the Lord their God. # Ps 22:27; Lm 3:40
17And he will go before Him
in the spirit and power of Elijah,
to turn the hearts of fathers
to their children, # Mal 4:5-6; Mt 11:14; 17:10-12
and the disobedient
to the understanding of the righteous,
to make ready for the Lord a prepared people. # Is 40:3; Lk 1:76; 3:4
18“How can I know this? ” Zechariah asked the angel. “For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.” # Lit in her days
19The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, # Dn 8:16; 9:21; Lk 1:26 who stands in the presence of God, # Mt 18:10 and I was sent to speak to you and tell you this good news. 20Now listen! You will become silent and unable to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
21Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah, amazed that he stayed so long in the sanctuary. 22When he did come out, he could not speak to them. Then they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He kept making signs to them # Lk 1:62 and remained speechless. 23When the days of his ministry were completed, he went back home.
24After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said, 25“The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace # Gn 30:23; Is 4:1; 25:8 among the people.”
Gabriel Predicts Jesus’ Birth
26In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel # Lk 1:19 was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, # Mt 2:23 27to a virgin engaged # Dt 21:23; Is 7:14; Mt 1:18,23 to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. # Mt 1:20; Lk 2:4 The virgin’s name was Mary. 28And the angel came to her and said, “Rejoice, favored woman! The Lord is with you.” # Other mss add blessed are you among women 29But she was deeply troubled # Lk 1:12 by this statement, wondering what kind of greeting this could be. 30Then the angel told her:
Do not be afraid, Mary, # Mt 14:27; Lk 1:13
for you have found favor with God. # Gn 6:8; Ex 33:12-17; Jr 31:2
31Now listen:
You will conceive and give birth to a son,
and you will call His name Jesus. # Is 7:14; Mt 1:21,25; Lk 2:21
32He will be great
and will be called the Son of the Most High, # Lk 1:35,76; 3:38; 6:35; 8:28; 9:35; Jn 1:34,49; 11:27; Ac 7:48
and the Lord God will give Him
the throne of His father David. # 2Sm 7:12-13; 1Kg 2:12; Ps 132:11; Is 9:7; Jr 33:17; Mk 11:10
33He will reign over the house of Jacob # Ex 19:3; Ps 114:1; Is 14:1; 29:22; 46:3 forever,
and His kingdom will have no end. # Is 9:6 LXX; Dn 7:14
34Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not been intimate with a man? ” # Lit since I do not know a man
35The angel replied to her:
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, # Mt 1:18
and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
Therefore, the holy One to be born
will be called the Son of God. # Mt 14:33; Lk 4:3,9,41; 22:70
36And consider your relative Elizabeth — even she has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called childless. 37For nothing will be impossible with God.” # Gn 18:14; Lk 18:27
38“I am the Lord’s slave,” # Lit Look, the Lord’s slave said Mary. “May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel left her.
Mary’s Visit to Elizabeth
39In those days Mary set out and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah 40where she entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped inside her, # Lit leaped in her abdomen or womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. # Lk 1:67; Ac 2:4; 4:8; 9:17; 13:9 42Then she exclaimed with a loud cry:
“You are the most blessed of women,
and your child will be blessed! # Lit and the fruit of your abdomen (or womb) is blessed
43How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44For you see, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped for joy inside me! # Lit in my abdomen or womb 45She who has believed is blessed because what was spoken to her by the Lord will be fulfilled! ”
Mary’s Praise
46And Mary said:
My soul proclaims the greatness of # Or soul magnifies the Lord, # 1Sm 2:1-10
47and my spirit has rejoiced # Ps 35:9; Hab 3:18 in God my Savior, # 1Tm 1:1; 2:3; Ti 1:3; 2:10; 3:4; Jd 25
48because He has looked with favor
on the humble condition of His slave.
Surely, from now on all generations
will call me blessed, # Lk 11:27
49because the Mighty One # Ps 89:8; Zph 3:17
has done great things for me, # Ps 71:19; 126:2-3
and His name # Lv 20:3; 22:2,32; 1Ch 16:10,35; 29:16; Ps 30:4; 99:3; 103:1; 111:9; Is 57:15 is holy.
50His mercy is from generation to generation # Ps 100:5; 103:11,17
on those who fear Him.
51He has done a mighty deed with His arm; # Ps 89:10; 98:1; 118:15
He has scattered the proud
because of the thoughts of their hearts; # Lk 2:35; 9:47
52He has toppled the mighty from their thrones
and exalted the lowly. # 1Sm 2:7-8
53He has satisfied the hungry with good things # Ps 34:10; 107:9; Lk 6:21,24-25
and sent the rich away empty.
54He has helped His servant Israel,
mindful of His mercy, # Because He remembered His mercy; Ps 98:3
55just as He spoke to our ancestors,
to Abraham and his descendants # Or offspring ; lit seed forever. # Gn 17:9,15; 21:12
56And Mary stayed with her about three months; then she returned to her home.
The Birth and Naming of John
57Now the time had come for Elizabeth to give birth, and she had a son. 58Then her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her His great mercy, # Lit the Lord magnified His mercy with her # Gn 19:19 and they rejoiced with her.
59When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, # Gn 17:12; Lv 12:3; Lk 2:21; Php 3:5 they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father. 60But his mother responded, “No! He will be called John.” # Lk 1:13,63
61Then they said to her, “None of your relatives has that name.” 62So they motioned to his father # Lk 1:22 to find out what he wanted him to be called. 63He asked for a writing tablet and wrote:
HIS NAME IS JOHN.
And they were all amazed. 64Immediately his mouth was opened # Lk 1:20 and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God. 65Fear came on all those who lived around them, and all these things were being talked about throughout the hill country of Judea. 66All who heard about him # Ac 11:21 took it to heart, saying, “What then will this child become? ” For, indeed, the Lord’s hand was with him.
Zechariah’s Prophecy
67Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit # Lk 1:41 and prophesied: # Jl 2:28
68Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, # Ps 41:13
because He has visited
and provided redemption for His people. # Lk 1:71; 2:38; Heb 9:12
69He has raised up a horn of salvation # = a strong Savior for us # 1Sm 2:1,10; Ps 18:2; 89:17; 132:17; Ezk 29:21
in the house of His servant David, # 2Sm 7:26; Ps 89:3,20; Ezk 34:23-24; 37:24-25
70just as He spoke by the mouth
of His holy prophets in ancient times; # 2Kg 21:10; Hs 12:10; Ac 3:21; Rm 1:2; Heb 1:1
71salvation from our enemies
and from the clutches # Lit the hand of those who hate us.
72He has dealt mercifully with our fathers # Mc 7:20
and remembered His holy covenant # Ps 105:8-9,42; 106:45 —
73the oath that He swore to our father Abraham. # Gn 22:16-17; Heb 6:13
He has given us the privilege,
74since we have been rescued
from our enemies’ clutches, # Lit from the hand of enemies
to serve Him without fear
75in holiness and righteousness
in His presence all our days.
76And child, you will be called
a prophet of the Most High, # Mt 11:9
for you will go before the Lord
to prepare His ways, # Lk 1:17; Is 40:3; Mal 3:1
77to give His people knowledge of salvation
through the forgiveness of their sins. # Jr 31:34; Mk 1:4
78Because of our God’s merciful compassion,
the Dawn from on high # Is 58:8; Jr 23:5; Zch 3:8; 6:12 LXX; Mal 4:2; Lk 24:49; Eph 4:8; 2Pt 1:19 will visit us
79to shine on those who live in darkness
and the shadow of death, # Is 9:2; 60:2-3
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
80The child grew up and became spiritually strong, # Lk 2:40 and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
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Lukas 1
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1Vibahlt (since) many Messianic Sofrim have attempted to compile a sefer, a historical narrative, about the momentous events that have been fulfilled among us,
2Just as these#1:2 massoret haShluchim have been handed down to us by those who from HaReshit#1:2 of the Besuras HaGeulah were edei reiyah (eyewitnesses) and mesharetim (ministers) of the Dvar Hashem,
3I thought it expedient also, having done an iyun (investigative research), accurately and carefully being meayen (engaged in research) in every source and making a medakdeke (pain-stakingly thorough) investigation of every aspect from HaReshit (the Beginning), to write for you and to mesader (arrange, place in succession) an orderly account, most noble Theophilus,
4That you may have daas of HaEmes regarding the Divrei Moshiach about which you took shiurim (lessons).
5At the time of Herod king of Yehudah, there was a certain kohen by the name Zecharyah, who belonged to the Aviyah division. His isha was of the banot Aharon, name of Elisheva.#1:5 1Chr 24:10
6And they were both tzaddikim before Hashem, walking a derech tamim in all the mitzvos and chukkim of the Torah of Adoneinu.#1:6 Gn 6:9; Dt 5:33; 1Kgs 9:4
7But they had no ben, because Elisheva was barren, and they were both advanced in their yamim.
8And it came to pass in the performance of his avodas kodesh sherut as a kohen before Hashem in the appointed order of his division,#1:8 1Chr 24:19; 2Chr 8:14
9According to the minhag (custom) of the kehunah, Zecharyah was chosen by lot to enter the Beis Hamikdash and to offer ketoret (incense).#1:9 Ex 30:7,8; 1Chr 23:13; 2Chr 29:11; Ps 141:2
10And when the hour of the offering of the ketoret came, all the multitude were davening outside.#1:10 Lv 16:17
11And there appeared to Zecharyah a malach Hashem, standing on the right side of the Mizbeach of ketoret.#1:11 Ex 30:1-10
12And, seeing the malach, Zecharyah was terrified, and pachad (fear) fell on him.#1:12 Judg 6:22,23; 13:22
13But the malach said to him, Do not have pachad (fear), Zecharyah. Your tefillah (prayer) was heard and your isha, Elisheva, will bear a ben to you and you will call his shem Yochanan.
14And he will be a simcha to you and sasson (joy), and there will be sasson rav (great joy) at his huledet (birth).
15And he will be gadol before Hashem, and he will not drink yayin or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Ruach Hakodesh from the womb of his Em (mother),#1:15 Num 6:3; Lv 10:9; Judg 13:4; Jer 1:5
16And many of the Bnei Yisroel he will turn back in teshuva to Hashem Eloheihem.
17And he will go forth before Adonoi in the ruach (spirit) and koach (power) of Eliyahu HaNavi, VEHESHIV LEV AVOT AL BANIM (And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the children)#1:17 Mal 4:6 [Mal 3:24] and those without mishmaat (obedience) he will turn to the chochmah of the tzaddikim to prepare for Adonoi an Am (People) having been made ready.#1:17 Mal 4:5,6
18And Zecharyah said to the malach, Just how will I have daas that this is so? For I am old and my isha is advanced in her yamim (days).#1:18 Gn 15:8; 17:17
19And in reply, the malach said to Zecharyah, I am Gavriel, I stand before Hashem. And I was sent to speak to you and to announce these things to you.#1:19 Dan 8:16; 9:21
20And hinei! You will be illem (mute) and not be able to speak, until the yom (day) when these things come to pass, because you did not have emunah in my devarim (words), which will be fulfilled in their time.#1:20 Ex 4:11; Ezek 3:26
21And the people were expecting Zecharyah and they were bewildered at his delay in the Beis HaMikdash.
22And when he came out, he was illem (mute) and not able to speak to them, and they had daas that he had seen a chazon in the Heikhal. He kept motioning to them and he remained illem.
23And it came about as the yamim of his sherut (service in the Beis HaMikdash) as a kohen were fulfilled, he went to his bais (house).
24And after these yamim, Elisheva, his isha, became with child, and she kept herself in hitbodedut for chamesh chodashim, saying,
25 Hashem has done this for me. In these yamim he looked with Chen vChesed (favor and mercy, loving kindness) on me to take away my reproach among Bnei Adam.#1:25 Gn 30:23; Isa 4:1
26Now in the chodesh shishi the malach Gavriel was sent from Hashem to a shtetl in the Galil called Natzeret,
27To a betulah (virgin) given in erusin (betrothal, engagement) to an ish from the Beis Dovid named Yosef,#1:27 ben Dovid and the shem of the almah was Miryam.
28And when the malach approached her, he said, Shalom, favored one! Hashem is with you!
29But she was greatly perplexed at the message, and kept pondering what sort of Shalom greeting this might be.
30And the malach said to her, Do not have pachad (fear), Miryam, for you have found chen before Hashem.
31And in your womb you will conceive and bear BEN#1:31 Isa 7:14 and you will call SHMO YEHOSHUA.#1:31 Zech 6:11-12
32He will be gadol (great) and will be called Ben HaElyon (Son of the Most High). Adonoi Elohim will give him the kisse Dovid Aviv,
33And he will rule over the Beis Ya'akov Olam vaed, and his Malchut will never come to an end.#1:33 2Sm 7:16; Ps 89:3,4; Isa 9:7; Jer 33:17; Dan 2:44; 7:14,27; Mic 4:7
34But Miryam said to the malach, How will this be, vi-bahlt (since) I do not have daas of an ish?
35And in reply, the malach said to her, The Ruach Hakodesh will come upon you and the gevurah of HaElyon will overshadow you. Therefore, also, the one being born will be called HaKadosh (The Holy One), Ben HaElohim.
36And Elisheva your krovah also has conceived a ben in her old age, and this chodesh is hashishi (the sixth) for her who is called barren.
37For nothing will be impossible with Hashem.
38And Miryam said, Hinei! I am the shifcha of Hashem. May it be done to me according to your dvar. And the malach departed from her.
39And in those yamim, Miryam got up and traveled into the hill country with haste to a shtetl of Yehudah.
40And she entered into the bais of Zecharyah and gave Birkat Shalom greetings to Elisheva.
41And it came about, when Elisheva heard the Birkat Shalom of Miryam, the yeled leaped in Elishevaʼs womb, and she was filled with the Ruach Hakodesh.
42And Elisheva cried out with a kol gadol (loud voice) and said, Brucha at miNashim (Blessed art thou among women), and baruch (blessed is) the pri (fruit) of your womb!#1:42 Judg 5:24
43And why has this happened to me that the Em Adoni should come to me?
44For hinei! When the sound of your Birkat Shalom came into my ears, the yeled leaped with simcha in my womb.
45And ashrey is the one having had emunah that there will be a fulfillment to the things having been spoken to Miryam by Hashem.
46And Miryam said, My soul doth magnify Hashem.#1:46 Ps 34:2,3
47ALATZ LIBI BA'HASHEM#1:47 1Sm 2:1 (My heart rejoices in Hashem) and my neshamah exalts in Hashem Yishi#1:47 Hab 3:18 (G-d my Savior, Moshi'a),#1:47 Ps 18:46; Isa 17:10; 61:10
48For HASHEM VISHAFAL YIREH#1:48 Ps 138:6 looked upon the humble state of His shifcha (bond maid), for from now on kol hadorot ishruni#1:48 Gn 30:13 (all generations will call me happy),
49For Shaddai (the Almighty) did gedolot for me and Kadosh is Shmo,#1:49 Ps 111:9
50And the chesed of Hashem is DOR VDOR#1:50 Ps 100:5 to those with yirat Shomayim.#1:50 Ex 20:6; Ps 103:17
51 Hashem has done niflaot (wonders) with his zeroa (arm).#1:51 Isa 53:1 He scattered those who in the machshavot (thoughts) of their levavot are the Gaayonim (the Haughty ones).
52He brought down shalitim (rulers) from their kisot (thrones) and lifted up the Anavim (Humble),
53The ones hungering, Hashem made full of tov, and the ashirim he sent away empty.#1:53 Ps 107:9
54 Hashem helped his servant Yisroel, in remembrance of his rachamim (mercy),
55Just as Hashem spoke to Avoteinu, to Avraham Avinu and his Zera ad Olam.
56And Miryam remained with Elisheva about shlosha chodashim, and then Miryam returned to her bais.
57Now when the time of Elisheva to give birth was fulfilled, she bore a ben.
58And Elishevaʼs shchenim (neighbors) and krovim (relatives) heard that Adoneinu greatly demonstrated his rachamim to her, and they had much simcha with her.
59And it came about on the yom hashemini (the eighth day) they came for the bris milah of the yeled, and they were calling him by the name of his abba, Zecharyah.
60And in reply, his Em said: Lo, but he will be called Yochanan.
61And they said to her, There is no one from your krovim who is called by this shem.
62And they began motioning to the yeledʼs abba to find out what shem he wanted to give him.
63And having asked for a luach (tablet), Zecharyah wrote, saying, Yochanan shmo. And everyone was amazed.
64And Zecharyahʼs mouth was loosed at once and the lashon of him, and he began speaking, saying Baruch Hashem!
65And upon all their shchenim (neighbors) came much yirat Shomayim, and in the entire hill country of Yehudah everyone was shmoozing about these matters.
66All who heard these things pondered them in their levavot, saying, What then will this yeled become? For, indeed, the yad Hashem was on him.#1:66 Gn 39:2
67And Zecharyah, his abba, was filled with the Ruach Hakodesh and brought forth a dvar nevuah, saying,
68BARUCH HASHEM ELOHEI YISROEL, for Adonoi has visited his Am Berit and accomplished a pedut kofer ransom for the Geulah of his people.
69And Hashem raised up a Keren Yeshu'ah (Horn of Salvation), a mighty Moshia, for us in the Beis Dovid, His eved,
70Just as Hashem spoke through the mouth of His neviim hakedoshim meOlam (holy prophets from long ago),#1:70 Jer 23:5
71That we should have Yeshu'at Eloheinu from our oyvim (enemies) and from the hand of all the ones who regard us with sinas chinom (baseless hatred).
72Thus Hashem has demonstrated his rachamim (mercy) to Avoteinu (our Fathers) and has remembered his Brit HaKodesh (Holy Covenant),#1:72 Mic 7:20; Ps 105:8,9; 106:45; Ezek 16:60
73The Brit HaShevu'ah (the Covenant of the oath) which He swore to Avraham Avinu to grant us,#1:73 Gn 22:16-18
74Having been delivered from the yad haoyvim (hand of enemies) of us to serve Hashem fearlessly,
75In kedushah (holiness) and tzedek (righteousness) before Him all our yamim (days).
76And you also, yeled (child), will be called Navi HaElyon (Prophet of the Most High); for you will go LIFNEI HAADON (before the L-rd) to prepare the DERECH HASHEM (The Way of the L-rd),#1:76 Mal 3:1; Isa 40:3
77To give daas (knowledge) of Yeshu'at Eloheinu (the Salvation of our G-d) to Hashemʼs Am Berit (People of the Covenant) by the selichat (forgiveness) of their avon (sin),#1:77 Jer 31:34
78Through the rav rachamim of Eloheinu (through the great mercy of our G-d), by which has visited us the rising SHEMESH (Sun)#1:78 Moshiach from Shomayim,#1:78 Mal 4:2 [ 3:20]
79To appear to the ones in CHOSHECH (darkness) and YOSHVEI BERETZ TZALMAVET (sitting in the land of the shadow of death), to direct our feet into the Derech Shalom.#1:79 Ps 107:14; Isa 9:1-2; 59:9
80And the yeled was growing and was being given chizzuk (strengthening) in the Ruach Hakodesh, and Yochanan was in the desolate places until the day of his hisgalus (revelation, manifestation) to Yisroel.
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