Luke 1:18

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Summary

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.

Whereby

For

General references

Genesis 15:8

Bible References

Whereby

But Mary said unto the messenger - How, shall this thing be, seeing that, a man, I know not?

And he said, My Lord Yahweh, whereby, can I know that I shall inherit it?

And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, - and said in his heart To one a hundred years old, shall a child be born? And shall even Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?

So then Sarah laughed within herself, saying: After I am past age, hath there come to me pleasure, my lord, also being old?

And Gideon said unto God, - If thou art about to bring salvation, by my hand, unto Israel, as thou hast spoken,

And Hezekiah had said - What is the sign - that I shall go up unto the house of Yahweh?

For

and they had no child, inasmuch as Elizabeth was barren, and, both, had become, advanced in their days.

And Moses said, Six hundred thousand footmen, are the people in whose midst am, I, yet thou hast said - Flesh, will I give unto them, a and they shall eat for a month of days.

Then the officer on whose hand the king leaned responded to the man of God, and said, Even if Yahweh were making windows in the heavens, could this thing, come to pass? And he said - Lo! thou, art about to see it with thine own eyes, but, thereof, shalt thou not eat!

And, without becoming weak in his faith, he attentively considered his own body, already deadened - he being a hundred years old, the deadening also of Sarah's womb;

General references

And he said, My Lord Yahweh, whereby, can I know that I shall inherit it?