Luke 1:76

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

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Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
And	Καὶ Kai	G2532	and · conjunction
thou	σὺ su	G4771	thou · personal pronoun — 2nd person nominative singular
child	παιδίον, paidion	G3813	a childling (of either sex) · noun — vocative singular neuter
called	κληθήσῃ· klēthēsē	G2564	to "call" (properly · verb — future passive indicative, 2nd person singular
prophet	προφήτης prophētēs	G4396	a foreteller ("prophet") · noun — nominative singular masculine
Highest	ὑψίστου hupsistou	G5310	highest · adjective — genitive singular masculine, superlative
for	γὰρ gar	G1063	properly · conjunction
go	προπορεύσῃ proporeusē	G4313	to precede (as guide or herald) · verb — future middle deponent indicative, 2nd person singular
before	πρό pró	G4253	"fore"
face	πρόσωπον prósōpon	G4383	the front (as being towards view)
Lord	κυρίου kuriou	G2962	supreme in authority · noun — genitive singular masculine, a title
prepare	ἑτοιμάσαι hetoimasai	G2090	to prepare · verb — aorist active infinitive
his	αὐτοῦ, autou	G846	the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — genitive singular masculine
ways	ὁδοὺς hodous	G3598	a road · noun — accusative plural feminine

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Cross-references

Malachi 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, eve…
Isaiah 40:3-5 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Mark 1:2-3 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Matthew 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,…
Matthew 11:9-10 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
Matthew 14:5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
John 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
Acts 16:17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Luke 1:67–end

We have here the song wherewith Zacharias praised God when his mouth was opened; in it he is said to prophesy (Luk 1:67), and so he did in the strictest sense of prophesying; for he foretold things to come concerning the kingdom of the Messiah, to which all the prophets bear witness. Observe, I. How he was qualified for this: He was filled with the Holy Ghost, was endued with more than ordinary measures and degrees of it, for this purpose; he was divinely inspired. God not only forgave him his unbelief and distrust (which was signified by discharging him from the punishment of it), but, as a specimen of the abounding of grace towards believers, he filled him with the Holy Ghost, and put this…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 1:76

Here are the dying echoes of this song; and very beautiful are these closing notes--like the setting sun, shorn indeed of its noontide radiance, but skirting the horizon with a wavy and quivering light--as of molten gold--on which the eye delights to gaze, till it disappears from the view. The song passes not here from Christ to John, but only from Christ direct to Christ as heralded by His forerunner. thou child--not "my son"--this child's relation to himself being lost in his relation to a Greater than either. prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before him--that is, "the Highest." As "the Most High" is an epithet in Scripture only of the supreme God, it is inconceivable that insp…

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Adam Clarke on Luke 1:76

And thou, child, etc. - Zacharias proclaims the dignity, employment, doctrine, and success of his son; and the ruin and recovery of the Jews and the Gentiles. 1. His dignity. Thou shalt be called (constituted) a prophet of the Most High. Prophet has two acceptations: - 1st. A person who foretells future events; and; 2dly. A teacher of men in the things of God, Co1 14:3. John was a prophet in both senses: he proclaimed the mercy which should be communicated; announced the baptism of the Holy Spirit; and taught men how to leave their sins, and how to find the salvation of God. See Luk 3:5-14. His very name, Jehochanan, the grace or mercy of Jehovah, (see Luk 1:60), was a constant prediction o…

The Church Fathers

(xix. Mor. sup. Job 28:23.) But all they who by preaching cleanse the hearts of their hearers from the filth of their sins, prepare a way for the coming of wisdom into the heart.
— Gregory the Dialogist ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

The reason I suppose that Zacharias hastened to speak to his son, was because he knew that John was shortly about to be a sojourner in the wilderness, and that he himself should see him no more.
— Origen of Alexandria ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

This Zachariah the priest, who was himself thought worthy of the power of prophecy, spoke both concerning his own son and the Lord Christ together, in these words: And thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways.
— Cosmas Indicopleustes, The Christian Topography, Book 5

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Dictionary and topics

John the Baptist — The “forerunner of our Lord.” We have but fragmentary and imperfect accounts of him in the Gospels. He was of priestly descent. His father, Zacharias, was a priest of the course of Abia (1 Chr.…
Songs — Of Moses (Ex. 15; Num. 21:17; Deut. 32; Rev. 15:3), Deborah (Judg. 5), Hannah (1 Sam. 2), David (2 Sam. 22, and Psalms), Mary (Luke 1:46-55), Zacharias (Luke 1:68-79), the angels (Luke 2:13), Simeon…
Covenant, The · Fulfilled in Christ — Fulfilled in Christ
John · Mission of — Mission of
Poetry · .Of Zacharias — .Of Zacharias
Psalms · Zacharias — Zacharias

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Luke 1:76

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Luke 1:67–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 1:76

Adam Clarke on Luke 1:76

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Luke 1:76

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Luke 1:67–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 1:76

Adam Clarke on Luke 1:76

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Luke 1:76

John Calvin on Luke 1:76–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Luke 1:76-77