Cast in her mind (διελογιζετο). Imperfect indicative. Note aorist διεταραχθη. Common verb for reckoning up different reasons. She …

Troubled at his saying. Disturbed or perplexed at what he said. It was so unexpected, so sudden, so extraordinary, and was so high an hono…

she was troubled at his saying.—The same word is used as had been used of Zacharias. With Mary, as with him, the first fe…

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was…

St. Ambrose of Milan: Observe the virgin by her way of life. She was alone in an inner room, unseen by human eyes and discov…

Zechariah had been “gripped with fear” (v.12) at the very appearance of the angel, but it was the angel’s greeting that “greatly troubled” Mary. He…

When she had seen him, she was agitated: Luke does not say that she was agitated by the presence of the angel, but by his add…

And when she saw him
The Persic version renders it, "when Mary saw the angel"; which expre es the true sense of the …

We have here an account of the mother of our Lord. Although we are not to pray to her, we ought to praise God for her. Christ had to be born miracu…