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just as he promised through his holy prophets long ago.
Luke 1:70 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
  • KJV As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
  • BSB as He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past,
  • NKJV As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began,
  • NASB Just as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient times—

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Quick answer

This salvation fulfills what God promised through his holy prophets long ago. God keeps his ancient word.

Overview

Zacharias affirms that the coming deliverance was foretold by the prophets from ages past. God's saving work in Christ is the consistent fulfillment of his prophetic promises. The whole of Scripture testifies to the redemption now dawning.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Acts 3:21–24whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
  • Rom 1:2which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
  • 2 Pet 1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
  • Jer 23:5“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
  • Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
  • 2 Sam 23:2“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.
  • Luke 24:26–27Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
  • Acts 28:25When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers,
  • Luke 24:44He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
  • Jer 30:10Therefore don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and no one shall make him afraid.
  • Gen 12:3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
  • 1 Pet 1:12To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
  • Heb 3:7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
  • Mark 12:36For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’
  • Rev 19:10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
  • Dan 9:24–27Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

How Luke 1:70 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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