Luk 1:15 | NET2full | STEP | for he will be great in the sight of the Lord . He must never drink wine or strong drink , and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit , even before his birth .

‏ Luke 1:15

15 for he will be great in the sight of ^{▼▼tn Grk “before.”} the Lord. He ^{▼▼tn Grk “and he”; because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun in the translation.} must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. ^{▼▼tn Grk “even from his mother’s womb.” While this idiom may be understood to refer to the point of birth (“even from his birth”), Luke 1:41 suggests that here it should be understood to refer to a time before birth.} ^{▼▼sn He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. This is the language of the birth of a prophet (Judg 13:5, 7; Isa 49:1; Jer 1:5; Sir 49:7); see 1:41 for the first fulfillment.}