Lukas 1:13

1:13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, ¹  and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you ²  will name him John. ³ 

Lukas 1:24-25

1:24 After some time ⁴  his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, ⁵  and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. ⁶  She said, ⁷  1:25 “This is what ⁸  the Lord has done for me at the time ⁹  when he has been gracious to me, ¹⁰  to take away my disgrace ¹¹  among people.” ¹² 

[1:13]  ¹ tn The passive means that the prayer was heard by God.

[1:13]  sn Your prayer has been heard. Zechariah’s prayer while offering the sacrifice would have been for the nation, but the answer to the prayer also gave them a long hoped-for child, a hope they had abandoned because of their old age.

[1:13]  ² tn Grk “a son, and you”; καί (kai) has not been translated. Instead a semicolon is used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:13]  ³ tn Grk “you will call his name John.” The future tense here functions like a command (see ExSyn 569-70). This same construction occurs in v. 31.

[1:13]  sn “Do not be afraid…you must call his name John.” This is a standard birth announcement (see Gen 16:11; Isa 7:14; Matt 1:21; Luke 1:31).

[1:24]  ⁴ tn Grk “After these days.” The phrase refers to a general, unspecified period of time that passes before fulfillment comes.

[1:24]  ⁵ tn Or “Elizabeth conceived.”

[1:24]  ⁶ sn The text does not state why Elizabeth withdrew into seclusion, nor is the reason entirely clear.

[1:24]  ⁷ tn Grk “she kept herself in seclusion, saying.” The participle λέγουσα (legousa) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[1:25]  ⁸ tn Grk “Thus.”

[1:25]  ⁹ tn Grk “in the days.”

[1:25]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “has looked on me” (an idiom for taking favorable notice of someone).

[1:25]  ¹¹ sn Barrenness was often seen as a reproach or disgrace (Lev 20:20-21; Jer 22:30), but now at her late age (the exact age is never given in Luke’s account), God had miraculously removed it (see also Luke 1:7).

[1:25]  ¹² tn Grk “among men”; but the context clearly indicates a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") here.