Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
One Anna a prophetess (anna profhtiv). The word profhtiv occurs in the N.T. only here and Revelation 2:20. In old Greek writers it means a woman who interprets oracles. The long parenthesis into verse Luke 2:37 tells of her great age. Montefiore makes it 106 as she was 15 when married, married 7 years, a widow 84.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 2:36:
Luke 23:27
Acts 2:17
Acts 21:9
Revelation 2:20
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