18And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
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Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
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?
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
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 eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-25)The two preceding evangelists had agreed to begin the gospel with the baptism of John and his ministry, which commenced about six months before our Saviour’s public ministry (and now, things being near a crisis, six months was a deal of time, which before was but a little ), and therefore this evangelist, designing to give a more particular account than had been given of our Saviour’s conception a…
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