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:''Saint Elisabeth redirects here. For other saints of this name, see Elizabeth.'' Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Greek Ἐλισάβετ) or ''Elisheba'' (from the Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע / אֱלִישָׁבַע "My God has sworn"; Standard Hebrew (unicode:Elišévaʿ) (unicode:Elišávaʿ), Tiberian Hebrew (unicode:ʾĔlîšéḇaʿ) (unicode:ʾĔlîšāḇaʿ); Arabic أليصابات''Alyassabat''), was the mother of John the Baptist and the wife of Zechariah, according to the Gospel of Luke. ==Biblical narrative== According to the Gospel of Luke, Elizabeth was "of the daughters of Aaron" (). She and her husband Zacharias were "righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless" (), but childless. While he was in the temple of the Lord (), Zacharias was visited by the angel Gabriel: Zacharias doubted whereby he could know this since both he and his wife were very old. The angel identified himself as Gabriel and told Zacharias that he would be "dumb, and not able to speak" until the words were fulfilled, because he did not believe. When the days of his ministry were complete, he returned to his house (). According to the account, the angel Gabriel was then sent to Nazareth in Galilee to her relative Mary, then a virgin, espoused to a man called Joseph, and informed her that she would conceive by the Holy Ghost and bring forth a son to be called Jesus. After she was also informed that her "relative Elizabeth" had begun her sixth month of pregnancy, she travelled to "Hebron, in the hill ''country'' of Judah",〔Compare The (''Treasury of Scripture Knowledge'' ) says, "This was most probably Hebron, a city of the priests, and situated in the hill country of Judea, (Jos 11:21; 21:11, 13,) about 25 miles south of Jerusalem, and nearly 100 from Nazareth."〕 to visit Elizabeth.() Matthew Henry comments, "Mary knew that Elisabeth was with child, but it does not appear that Elisabeth had been told any thing of her relative Mary's being designed for the mother of the Messiah; and therefore what knowledge she appears to have had of it must have come by a revelation, which would be a great encouragement to Mary."〔(Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary )〕 After Mary heard Elizabeth's blessing, she spoke the words now known as the Magnificat (). Again, Henry notes that "it was here, in Hebron, that circumcision was first instituted", and it was here that the turned Abram's name to Abraham when he gave him the covenant of circumcision.〔 That is the last mention of Elizabeth, who is not mentioned in any other chapter in the Bible. The chapter continues with the prophecy of Zacharias, (known as the Benedictus,) and ends with the note that John "grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts" until his ministry to Israel began; so it is unknown how long Elizabeth and her husband lived after that (). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth (biblical figure)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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