Luke 1:13
13But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, ▼▼ The passive means that the prayer was heard by God.
▼▼ Your prayer has been heard. Zechariah’s prayer while offering the sacrifice would have been for the nation, but the answer to the prayer also gave them a long hoped-for child, a hope they had abandoned because of their old age.
and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you ▼▼ Grk “a son, and you”; καί (kai) has not been translated. Instead a semicolon is used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
will name him John. ▼ ▼
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