Exegesis eplēsthē pneumatos hagiou ‘was filled with the Holy Spirit’, cp. on vv. 15 and 41. kai eprophēteusen legōn ‘and prophesied, saying’; the clause refers, together with the preceding phrase, to a specific happening as is shown by the aorist tense. The participle legōn ‘saying’, when going with a main verb denoting an act of speaking (e.g. eipon ‘they said’ in 7:39, or boaō ‘to shout’ in 18:38), or an act performed by means of speaking (e.g. prophēteuō here, or epitimaō ‘to
Luke 1:67