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Luke 1:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" When the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house. "
Luke 1:23
Verse in Context
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21 The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.
22 When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.
23 When the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house.
24 After these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,
25 “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
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Luke 1:1
"Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,"
Luke 1:2
"even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,"
Luke 1:3
"it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;"
Luke 1:4
"that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed."
Luke 1:5
"There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth."
Luke 1:6
"They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord."
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