Verse List for LUKE 1:18

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator,Zekaryah (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Zekaryah asked the messenger, “How will I know if you’re telling the truth, because I’m an older man and my wife is also getting old?”

OET-LV And Zaⱪarias said to the messenger:
By what ˓will˒_I _be _knowing this?
For/Because I am an_older _man, and the wife of _me having _advanced in the days of _her.

ULT Then Zechariah said to the angel, “How will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in her days.”

UST Then Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure that the things you have said will really happen? I am very old, and my wife is also very old, so it is difficult for me to believe that they will happen.”

BSB “How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

MSB “How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

BLB And Zechariah said to the angel, "By what will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in her years."

AICNT And Zechariah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.”

OEB ‘How can I be sure of this?’ Zechariah asked the angel. ‘For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years.’

WEBBE Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

WMBB Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

NET Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.”

LSV And Zacharias said to the messenger, “Whereby will I know this? For I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?”

FBV “How can I be sure about this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I'm an old man, and my wife is getting old too.”

TCNT Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I know this for certain? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in her days.”

T4T Then Zechariah said to the angel, “I am very old, and my wife is also so old that she cannot bear a child. So ◄I cannot believe that what you (sg) said will happen!/how can I believe that what you (sg) said will happen?► [RHQ]”

LEB ¶  And Zechariah said to the angel, “By what will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced _⌊in years_⌋!”[fn]

BBE And Zacharias said to the angel, How may I be certain of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far on in years.

Moff Zechariah said to the angel, "But how am I to be sure of this? I am an old man myself, and my wife is advanced in years."

Wymth "By what proof," asked Zechariah, "shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in years."

ASV And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

DRA And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.

YLT And Zacharias said unto the messenger, 'Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?'

Drby And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years?

RV And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

SLT And Zacharias said to the messenger, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in her days.

Wbstr And Zacharias said to the angel, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife far advanced in years.

KJB-1769 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

KJB-1611 And Zacharias said vnto the Angel, Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife well striken in yeeres.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)

Bshps And Zacharias saide vnto the Angel: By what token shall I know this? For I am olde, and my wyfe well stricken in yeres.
(And Zacharias said unto the Angel: By what token/sign shall I know this? For I am old, and my wife well stricken in years.)

Gnva Then Zacharias said vnto ye Angel, Whereby shall I knowe this? for I am an olde man, and my wife is of a great age.
(Then Zacharias said unto ye/you_all Angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is of a great age.)

Cvdl And Zachary sayde vnto the Angel: Wherby shal I knowe this? For I am olde, and my wife well stricken in age.
(And Zachary said unto the Angel: Wherby shall I know this? For I am old, and my wife well stricken in age.)

TNT And Zacharias sayde vnto the angell: Wher by shall I knowe this? seinge that I am olde and my wyfe well stricken in yeares.
(And Zacharias said unto the angel: Where by shall I know this? seeing that I am old and my wife well stricken in years.)

Wycl And Zacarie seide to the aungel, Wherof schal Y wite this? for Y am eld, and my wijf hath gon fer in to hir daies.
(And Zacarie said to the angel, Whereof shall I wit/know this? for I am eld, and my wife hath/has going far in to her days.)

Luth Und Zacharias sprach zu dem Engel: Wobei soll ich das erkennen? Denn ich bin alt, und mein Weib ist betagt.
(And Zacharias spoke to/for to_him angel: Wobei should I the recognise/realise? Because I am old, and my woman is elderly.)

ClVg Et dixit Zacharias ad angelum: Unde hoc sciam? ego enim sum senex, et uxor mea processit in diebus suis.[fn]
(And he/she_said Zacharias to a_messenger/angel: From_where/who this I_know? I because I_am old_man, and wife my proceeded in/into/on days to_his_own.)

SR-GNT Καὶ εἶπεν Ζαχαρίας πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον, “Κατὰ τί γνώσομαι τοῦτο; Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι πρεσβύτης, καὶ ἡ γυνή μου προβεβηκυῖα ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῆς.” ‡

UGNT καὶ εἶπεν Ζαχαρίας πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον, κατὰ τί γνώσομαι τοῦτο? ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι πρεσβύτης, καὶ ἡ γυνή μου προβεβηκυῖα ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῆς.

SBL-GNT καὶ εἶπεν Ζαχαρίας πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον· Κατὰ τί γνώσομαι τοῦτο; ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι πρεσβύτης καὶ ἡ γυνή μου προβεβηκυῖα ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῆς.

RP-GNT Καὶ εἶπεν Ζαχαρίας πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον, Κατὰ τί γνώσομαι τοῦτο; Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι πρεσβύτης, καὶ ἡ γυνή μου προβεβηκυῖα ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῆς.

TC-GNT καὶ εἶπε Ζαχαρίας πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον, Κατὰ τί γνώσομαι τοῦτο; ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι πρεσβύτης, καὶ ἡ γυνή μου προβεβηκυῖα ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῆς.