Luke 1:5 meaning and explanation
In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.
Luke 1:5, Berean Standard Bible
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Luke opens his Gospel by anchoring the story in real history: Herod the Great ruled Judea as a client king under Rome. Zechariah was a priest of the division of Abijah, one of the twenty four rotating groups of priests, and Elizabeth, like him, came from priestly stock, a descendant of Aaron.
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