Sentences with phrase «son in one's old age»

In response to Mary's question how she, a virgin, could bear a child, Gabriel points to the miracle of Mary's relative, Elizabeth, who «has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.

She is going to have a son in her old age, even though she was barren.

Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.

36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

The «son in his old age» theme in the Abraham story is here applied to Naomi and expressed in the glad words of the neighbor women in Bethlehem: «He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age.»

If you are familiar, history talks about Abraham the Jewish patriarch laughing when God told him his wife Sarah would have a son in her old age, and from that laughter they named their son Isaac.