Luke Chapter 1 verse 38 Holy Bible
And Mary said, Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
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And Mary said: I am the servant of the Lord; may it be to me as you say. And the angel went away.
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And Mary said, Behold the bondmaid of [the] Lord; be it to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
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And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
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Mary said, "Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word." The angel departed from her.
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And Mary said, `Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,' and the messenger went away from her.
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Luke 1 : 38 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 38. - Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. "God's message," writes Godet, "by the mouth of the angel was not a command. The part Mary had to fulfill made no demands on her. It only remained, therefore, for Mary to consent to the consequences of the Divine offer. She gives this consent in a word at once simple and sublime, which involved the most extraordinary act of faith that a woman ever consented to accomplish. Mary accepts the sacrifice of that which is dearer to a young maiden than her very life, and thereby becomes pre-eminently the heroine of Israel, the ideal daughter of Zion." Nor was the immediate trouble and sorrow which she foresaw would soon compass her round by any means the whole burden which submission to the angel's message would bring upon the shrinking Nazareth maiden. The lot proposed to her would bring probably in its wake unknown sufferings as well as untold blessedness. We may with all reverence think Mary already feeling the first piercings in her heart of that sharp sword which was one day to wound so deeply the mother of sorrows; yet in spite of all this, in full view of the present woe, which submission to the Divine will would forthwith bring upon her, with an unknown future of sorrow in the background, Mary submitted herself of her own free will to what she felt was the will and wish of her God.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(38) Behold the handmaid of the Lord . . .--The words seem to show a kind of half-consciousness that the lot which she thus accepts might bring with it unknown sufferings, as well as untold blessedness. She shrinks, as it were, from the awfulness of the position thus assigned to her, but she can say, as her Son said afterwards, when His time of agony was come, "Not my will, but Thine be done." It may be that the more immediate peril of which St. Matthew speaks (1:19). flashed even then upon her soul as one that could not be escaped. (Comp. Luke 2:35.)
