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

And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I am a virgin?"

But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?"

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?"

Then Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,

Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"

For

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.

But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!'

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."

He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.

General references

But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?"