Luke Chapter 1 verse 66 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 1:66

And all that heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then shall this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.
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BBE Luke 1:66

And all who had word of them kept them in their minds and said, What will this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.
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DARBY Luke 1:66

And all who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then will this child be? And [the] Lord's hand was with him.
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KJV Luke 1:66

And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.
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WEB Luke 1:66

All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.
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YLT Luke 1:66

and all who heard did lay them up in their hearts, saying, `What then shall this child be?' and the hand of the Lord was with him.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 66. - And the hand of the Lord was with him. This kind of pause in the history is one of the peculiarities of St. Luke's style. We meet with it several times in the gospel story and in the history of the Acts. They are vivid pictures in a few words of what happened to an individual, to a family, or to a cause, during often a long. course of years. Here the story of the childhood of the great pioneer of Christ is briefly sketched out; in it all, and through it all, there was one guiding hand - the Lord's. The expression, "hand of the Lord," was peculiarly a Hebrew thought - one of the vivid anthropomorphic idioms which, as has been aptly remarked, they could use more boldly than other nations, because they had clearer thoughts of God as not made after the similitude of men (Deuteronomy 4:12). Maimonides, the great Jewish writer of the twelfth century, in his 'Yad Hachazakah,' says, "And there was under his feet (Exodus 24:10); written with the finger of God (Exodus 31:18); the hand of the Lord (Exodus 9:3); the eyes of the Lord (Deuteronomy 11:12); the ears of the Lord (Numbers 11:18). All these are used with reference to the intellectual capacity of the sons of men, who can comprehend only corporeal beings; so that the Law spoke in the language of the sons of men, and all these are expressions merely, just as, If I whet my glittering sword (Deuteronomy 32:41); for has he, then, a sword? or does he slay with a sword? Certainly not: this is only a figure; and thus all are figures" ('Yad,' chapter 1:8).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(66) What manner of child shall this be!--Better, what shall this child be! The question was not, what kind of child He should be, but what the child would grow to.And the hand of the Lord was with him.--Some good MSS. give, "for the hand of the Lord," as giving the reason for the previous question. The "hand" implies, in the familiar language of the Old Testament (e.g., Judges 2:15; 2Chronicles 30:12; Ezra 7:9), what we more commonly call the "guidance" or the "providence" of God. The phrase was essentially a Hebrew one; one of the vivid anthropomorphic idioms which they could use more boldly than other nations, because they had clearer thoughts of God as not made after the similitude of men (Deuteronomy 4:12).