Introduction
The announcement of the births of John and Jesus Christ and events following.
Questions
1. What good news did the angel tell Zacharias about his wife?
v 13 ... Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
2. What did the angel tell Zacharias that his son would do?
v 16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.
3. What did the angel tell Mary about the son she was going to have?
v 32 and 33 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”
Summary Points
- v 1 to 4 This narrative is for Theophilus
- v 5 to 25 Zacharias and Elizabeth are promised a son, John, who will prepare the nation of Israel for the coming of the Lord
- v 26 to 31 The angel Gabriel tells the virgin Mary, she will have a son, conceived by God’s Spirit, who is to be called Jesus
- v 32 and 33 Gabriel tells Mary that Jesus will:
- be Son of God
- be given David’s throne
- reign over an endless Kingdom
- v 34 to 45 The angel tells her more about her son, and also about Elisabeth whom she then visits
- v 46 to 55 Mary says that she has been blessed by God. She says that God helps those who fear him including the descendants of Abraham
v 56 to 80 John is born and Zacharias praises God, seeing the coming of God’s salvation and forgiveness of sins