Luke 1:18 Cross References - NSB

¹⁸ Zechariah asked: »How might I be certain of this for my wife and I are old?«

⁸ Abram replied: »O Jehovah God, how will I know that I shall possess it?«

¹⁷ Abraham fell to his face. He laughed and said to himself: »Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?«

¹² Therefore Sarah laughed within herself. She said to herself: »After I have grown old, shall I have a baby? My lord is old also.«

²¹ Moses said to Jehovah: »Here I am leading six hundred thousand people, and you say that you will give them enough meat for a month?« ²² »Could enough cattle and sheep even be killed to satisfy them? Are all the fish in the sea enough for them? ²³ »Is there a limit to my power?« Jehovah answered. »You will soon see whether what I have said will happen or not!«

³⁶ Gideon said to God: »You have said you will rescue Israel using me. ³⁷ »Look I will place wool on the threshing floor where we thresh the wheat. If in the morning there is dew only on the wool but not on the ground, I will know that you are going to use me to rescue Israel.« ³⁸ That is what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he squeezed the wool and wrung enough dew out of it to fill a bowl with water. ³⁹ Then Gideon said to God: »Do not be angry with me. Allow me to speak just once more. Please let me make one more test with the wool. This time let the wool be dry, and the ground wet.« ⁴⁰ That night God did it. The next morning the wool was dry, but the ground was wet with dew.

² The personal attendant of the king said to Elisha: »If Jehovah could make floodgates in the heavens could this happen?« Elisha replied: »You will see it with your own eyes. But you will not eat from it.«

²² Hezekiah said: »What will be the sign that I will go up to the Temple of Jehovah?«

⁷ They had no child for Elizabeth was barren and they both were well advanced in years.

³⁴ Mary asked the angel: »How is this to be for I have had no intercourse with a man?«

¹⁹ Not being weak in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.