Luke 1:39-56<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
This story of a private visit between two miraculously expectant women points to something very important and distinctive about the gospel of Luke:<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
All the narratives in Luke 1-2 are unique to Luke, and it is often assumed that his source for these stories was Mary herself. Indeed, Luke explicitly says that he is recording things he has heard from \u201ceyewitnesses\u201d (Luke 1:2). Some of the stories in Luke are things only Mary could have known (the annunciation, 1:26-38; meeting Elizabeth, 1:39-56; details of Christ\u2019s birth, 2:1-7). She must have been their ultimate source and perhaps told them to Luke personally. All of Luke\u2019s stories emphasize Mary\u2019s acts, inner thoughts and psychological state (2:19, 2:51). Luke also emphasizes the role of other women who were filled with the Holy Spirit: Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, and Anna, the temple prophetess (Luke 2:36). \u00a0Luke 1:46-55 is Mary\u2019s inspired hymn upon meeting Elizabeth (often called, from the first word of its Latin translation, the \u201cMagnificat\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
S. Kent Brown\u2019s important volume The Testimony of Luke<\/em> (Provo: BYU Studies, 2015), part of the ongoing project of producing a multivolume, multiauthor \u201cBrigham Young University New Testament Commentary,\u201d offers this comment (at page 115) regarding Luke 1:39\u2019s rather vague reference to \u201ca city of Judah\u201d:<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because the name Judea appears in 2:4, we wonder why Luke writes two names within a few lines of one another for esssentially the same geographical region. \u00a0In response, he may have been influenced by his source. \u00a0Some suggest that in 1:39 Luke is referring to the town of Jutta or Yutta which lies to the south of Hebron, or generally to the territory of Judea. \u00a0To be sure, Hebron is one of the cities assigned to priests and Levites for their inheritance, which makes this possibility intriguing as a potential hometown for Zacharias and Elisabeth (see Josh. 21:11-13).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Luke 1:26-38 \u00a0 This account of the Annunciation, as it\u2019s called, occurs only in the gospel of Luke. \u00a0 \u00a0Such stories, told from Mary\u2019s perspective, have suggested to many readers that Mary herself was among the \u201ceyewitness\u201d sources used by Luke in the composition of his gospel (see Luke 1:2). \u00a0I find that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3034,1152,3040,3001,3037,2625,3007],"class_list":["post-69538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annunciation","tag-brigham-young-university","tag-elizabeth","tag-kent-brown","tag-mary","tag-new-testament","tag-new-testament-commentary"],"yoast_head":"\n
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