While he executed the priest's office (εν τω ιερατευειν αυτον). A favourite idiom in Luke, εν with the articular infinitive and th…

In the order of his course.—This was settled by rotation. Attempts have been made by reckoning back from the date of the destructi…

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…

The Venerable Bede: The Lord appointed through Moses one high priest, at whose death another was to succeed him in due order. T…

The “division” (GK 2389) was one of twenty-four groups of priests divided by families and structured after the pattern of 1Ch 23 and 24 (cf. [Refer…

And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's
office
To which he was calle…

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…