Luk 1:13 | RWP | e4.org | Is heard ( εισηκουσθη ). First aorist passive indicative. A sort of timeless aorist, "was heard" when made, and so "is heard" now. Probably the prayer was for a son in spite of the great age of Elisabeth, though the Messianic redemption is possible also. John ( Ιωανην ). The word means that God is gracious. The mention of the name should have helped Zacharias to believe. The message of the angel (verses ) takes on a metrical form when turned into Hebrew (Ragg) and it is a prose poem in Greek and English like , , , , ; , , , . Certainly Luke has preserved the earliest Christian hymns in their oldest sources. He is the first critic of the sources of the Gospels and a scholarly one.

‏ Luke 1:13

Is heard ( εισηκουσθη ). First aorist passive indicative. A sort of timeless aorist, "was heard" when made, and so "is heard" now. Probably the prayer was for a son in spite of the great age of Elisabeth, though the Messianic redemption is possible also.

John ( Ιωανην ). The word means that God is gracious. The mention of the name should have helped Zacharias to believe. The message of the angel (verses 13-17) takes on a metrical form when turned into Hebrew (Ragg) and it is a prose poem in Greek and English like 1:30-33, 35-37, 42-45, 46-55, 68-70; 2:10-12, 14, 29-32, 34-35. Certainly Luke has preserved the earliest Christian hymns in their oldest sources. He is the first critic of the sources of the Gospels and a scholarly one.