The event where the angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will conceive and give birth to Jesus, the Son of God. Teaching PointsDivine FavorGod's favor is not based on human merit but on His sovereign choice and grace. Mary was chosen by God for a unique purpose, reminding us that ...
It was an angel who found Agar in the wilderness (Gen., xvi); angels drew Lot out of Sodom; an angel announces to Gideon that he is to save his people; an angel foretells the birth of Samson (Judges, xiii), and the angel Gabriel instructs Daniel (Dan., viii, 16), though he ...
"one of a class of spiritual beings, attendants and messengers of God," a c. 1300 fusion of Old Englishengel(with hard-g-) and Old Frenchangele. Both are from Late Latinangelus, from Greekangelos, literally "messenger, envoy, one that announces," in the New Testament "divine messenger,...
(Luke 1:20). When Gabriel announced to Mary that she would bear Jesus (Luke 31), she seems to have been more disturbed by his message than his appearance. The birth of Jesus was announced to Bethlehem shepherds by the angel of the Lord, and since he was accompanied by the divine ...
and again when a new order of things begins with the resurrection. An angel appears three times in dreams to Joseph (Mt 1:20;2:13,19). The angel Gabriel appears to Zacharias, and then to Mary in the annunciation (Lu 1:1-80). An angel announces to the shepherds the birth of Jesus...
and to free us from his temptations.” Archangel Gabriel The name Gabriel means God is my strength. In the Gospel of Luke, Gabriel is the angel who announces to Mary that she will give birth to a son and name him Jesus. He is known as the patron saint of communication, giving ...
In the New Testament, he announces to Zacharias the birth of Zacharias's son (see Luke 1:11-20), who is destined to become known as John the Baptist, and to Mary that she is to be the mother of Jesus Christ (see Luke 1:26-31).在新約,他宣布將撒迦利亞的誕生,撒迦利亞的兒子(見...
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