Luke 1:18
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
KJV
καὶ εἶπεν Ζαχαρίας πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον· κατὰ τί γνώσομαι τοῦτο; ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι πρεσβύτης καὶ ἡ γυνή μου προβεβηκυῖα ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῆς.
Greek NT
Et dixit Zacharias ad angelum : Unde hoc sciam ? ego enim sum senex, et uxor mea processit in diebus suis.
Vulgate
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
ASV
And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Ζαχαρίας
zacharias
noun · 11×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πρεσβύτης
presbutes
noun · 3×
προβαίνω
probaino
verb · 5×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἄγγελος
aggelos
verb · 176×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Theophany
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§724In Mary, the Holy Spirit manifests the Son of the Father, now become the Son of the Virgin. She is the burning bush of the definitive theophany. Filled with the Holy Spirit she makes the Word visible in the humility of his flesh. It is to the poor and the first representatives of the gentiles that she makes him known.106
1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance, and Prayer for Guidance. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the need…
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 4:16 — And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
- 2Kgs 7:2 — Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine ey
- Gen 15:8 — And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
- Gen 17:17 — Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
- Gen 18:12 — Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
- Gen 18:12 — Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
- Gen 18:14 — Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
- Isa 38:22 — Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
- Judg 6:36 — And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,
- Luke 1:7 — And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
- Luke 1:34 — Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
- Rom 4:18 — Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
- Rom 4:19 — And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:
- Rom 4:20 — He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;