Because that (καθοτ). Good Attic word, according to what. Only in Luke and Acts in the N.T. In the papyri.

Well str…

Well stricken in years.—Literally, far advanced in their days.

And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. And it came to pass, that while he exe…

St. John Chrysostom: St. Luke begins the history of his Gospel with Zechariah and the birth of John, recounting one marvelous …

To be childless brought sorrow and often shame. At her advanced age, Elizabeth could no longer entertain the hope of each Jewish woman to be the mo…

And they had no child. By an extraordinary purpose of God it was appointed that John should be born out of the common and ordinary course …

And they had no child
Son or daughter: and which was accounted a great infelicity: but this was not owing to the jud…

The father and mother of John the Baptist were sinners, as all are, and were justified and saved in the same way as others; but they were distingui…