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Bible History Commentary: New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Excellent tool for teachers—elementary, Sunday school, vacation Bible school, Bible class—and students. Franzmann clarifies historical accounts, explains difficult passages, offers essential background information, warns about misapplications of the biblical narrative, and reminds readers of the gospel. Contains maps, illustrated charts and tables, a Hebrew calendar, indexes of proper names and...

So Mary was told that her son would be the divine Messiah or Savior whose kingdom of salvation would “never end,” that is, be eternal. (vv. 30–33) (See the exposition of 2 Samuel 7:12–16 in Bible History Commentary—Old Testament.) Mary knew that she was “of the descendants of David,” but she also realized that she was but a lowly, obscure young woman and only one of thousands tracing their descent from David. Well might she have “staggered” at this tremendous promise. But every promise of
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