Luke 1:18

1:18 Zechariah 1  said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? 2  For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.” 3 

Luke 1:45

1:45 And blessed 4  is she who believed that 5  what was spoken to her by 6  the Lord would be fulfilled.” 7 

1 tn Grk “And Zechariah.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

2 tn Grk “How will I know this?”

3 tn Grk “is advanced in days” (an idiom for old age).

4 sn Again the note of being blessed makes the key point of the passage about believing God.

5 tn This ὅτι (Joti) clause, technically indirect discourse after πιστεύω (pisteuw), explains the content of the faith, a belief in God’s promise coming to pass.

6 tn That is, “what was said to her (by the angel) at the Lord’s command” (BDAG 756 s.v. παρά A.2).

7 tn Grk “that there would be a fulfillment of what was said to her from the Lord.”

sn This term speaks of completion of something planned (2 Chr 29:35).