What does Mary’s song reveal about: (a) the character of God (esp. v49-50),
and (b) His way of working among men (v51–53)?
How were these facts demonstrated in the manner of the Saviour’s coming?
What features in Mary’s character are revealed in this song?
What can we learn from her example?
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v31–33, 35. List the features of the person and mission of the
promised child that can be discerned in the words of the angel.
Contrast Mary’s reception of the angel’s message with that of
Zechariah (cf. v45). What did Mary’s response involve?
Are you prepared similarly to ask the Lord to fulfil his word in you?
Note. v31. ‘Jesus’ is the Greek form of Joshua, which means ‘God saves’.
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What was the mission assigned to John the Baptist?
What was to be the nature of his greatness (verse 15)? cf. v76, 77.
What was the cause of Zechariah’s punishment (verse 20)?
What made him hesitate to believe the angel’s message?
What similar temptations to unbelief do you face? Why ought
Zechariah to have believed, and why ought we to believe?
v1–4. What do these verses tell us of: (a) the sources of Luke’s
information, (b) the importance that he attached to giving a
truthful record, and (c) his purpose in writing the Gospel?
Note. v3. The title ‘most excellent’ suggests that Theophilus was a high official,
probably not a Christian, but with some knowledge of and interest in Christianity.
注:3节。「大人」的称呼,暗示提阿非罗可能是一位高级官员,他大概不是
基督徒,但对基督教已有若干知识和兴趣。
