Luke 1:37

37 For {nothing will be impossible with God}."^[a]

Luke 1:37 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 1:37

For with God nothing shall be impossible.
] That is consistent with his nature and perfections, with his counsels, purposes, and promises: every thing that he has said, purposed, or promised, he is able to do, and will; every word that he has spoken, every thing predicted by his prophets, or declared by his angels, and particularly this of a virgin's conceiving and bearing a Son: so that the angel not only answers her question, how this should be, but confirms her faith in it; partly by the instance of her cousin Elisabeth, and partly by observing the infinite omnipotence of God.

Luke 1:37 In-Context

35 And the angel answered [and] said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the one to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.

36 And behold, your relative Elizabeth--she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren.

37 For {nothing will be impossible with God}."

38 So Mary said, "Behold, the Lord's female slave! May it happen to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.

39 Now in those days Mary set out [and] traveled with haste into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "every thing will not be impossible with God"