Luke 1:5

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Birth of John the Baptist Foretold

⁵In the days of Herod [the Great], king of Judea, there was a certain priest whose name was ^[a]Zacharias, of ^[b]the division of Abijah. His wife was ^[c]a descendant of Aaron [the first high priest of Israel], and her name was Elizabeth.

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Footnotes

Luke 1:5 I.e. Zechariah. The spelling is different because a Greek word cannot end with an “h,” and in place of “ah” the common Greek ending “-as” was substituted.
Luke 1:5 King David organized the priests into 24 groups or divisions, each headed by a president. A division served twice a year for a week at a time (1 Chr 24:1-19).
Luke 1:5 Lit from the daughters of.

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