Luke 1:56

THE MESSAGE

Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three months and then went back to her own home.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And Mary stayed with her about three months; then she returned to her home.

King James Version (1611)
And Mary abode with her about three moneths, and returned to her owne house.

King James Version
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.

English Standard Version
And Mary remained with her about three months and returned to her home.

New American Standard Bible
Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her home.

New Century Version
Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.

Amplified Bible
And Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months, and then returned to her home.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her home.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her home.

Berean Standard Bible
Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.

Contemporary English Version
Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months. Then she went back home.

Complete Jewish Bible
Miryam stayed with Elisheva for about three months and then returned home.

Darby Translation
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her house.

Easy-to-Read Version
Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then went home.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Marie abode with her about three moneths: after, shee returned to her owne house.

George Lamsa Translation
Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months, and then returned to her own home.

Good News Translation
Mary stayed about three months with Elizabeth and then went back home.

Lexham English Bible
And Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her home.

Literal Translation
And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her house.

American Standard Version
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned unto her house.

Bible in Basic English
And Mary was with her for about three months and then went back to her house.

Hebrew Names Version
Miryam stayed with her about three months, and returned to her house.

International Standard Version
Now Mary stayed with Elizabethwith her">[fn] about three months and then went back home.

Etheridge Translation
And Mariam stayed with Elishaba three months, and returned to her house.

Murdock Translation
And Mary remained with Elisabeth about three months, and returned to her home.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Marie abode with her about three monethes, and returned agayne to her owne house.

English Revised Version
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned unto her house.

World English Bible
Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her house.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.

Weymouth's New Testament
So Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months, and then returned home.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Marie dwellide with hir, as it were thre monethis, and turnede ayen in to hir hous.

Update Bible Version
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her house.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.

New English Translation
So Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then returned to her home.

New King James Version
And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her house.

New Living Translation
Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then went back to her own home.

New Life Bible
Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months. Then she went to her own home.

New Revised Standard
And Mary remained with her about three months and then returned to her home.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned unto her house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mary abode with her about three months. And she returned to her own house.

Revised Standard Version
And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her home.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And mary aboode with hyr aboute a .iii. monethes and retourned agayne to hyr awne housse.

Young's Literal Translation
And Mary remained with her about three months, and turned back to her house.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Mary abode with her aboute thre monethes, and then returned home agayne.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Now Mary stay'd about three months with Elizabeth, and then return'd to her own house.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Mary stayed there with Elizabeth for about three months and then headed back to Nazareth.

Contextual Overview

³⁹Mary didn't waste a minute. She got up and traveled to a town in Judah in the hill country, straight to Zachariah's house, and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby in her womb leaped. She was filled with the Holy Spirit, and sang out exuberantly, You're so blessed among women, and the babe in your womb, also blessed! And why am I so blessed that the mother of my Lord visits me? The moment the sound of your greeting entered my ears, The babe in my womb skipped like a lamb for sheer joy. Blessed woman, who believed what God said, believed every word would come true! ⁴⁶And Mary said, I'm bursting with God-news; I'm dancing the song of my Savior God. God took one good look at me, and look what happened— I'm the most fortunate woman on earth! What God has done for me will never be forgotten, the God whose very name is holy, set apart from all others. His mercy flows in wave after wave on those who are in awe before him. He bared his arm and showed his strength, scattered the bluffing braggarts. He knocked tyrants off their high horses, pulled victims out of the mud. The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the callous rich were left out in the cold. He embraced his chosen child, Israel; he remembered and piled on the mercies, piled them high. It's exactly what he promised, beginning with Abraham and right up to now. ⁵⁶ Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three months and then went back to her own home.

Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Mary abode with her about three months,.... That is, she continued with Elisabeth, as the Syriac and Persic versions express, about the space of three months; in which time, she had full satisfaction of the truth of the sign the angel had given her; namely, of Elisabeth's conception and pregnancy, for by this time she was ready to give birth; and she must now be fully assured, that she was with child herself: this space of three months is a term of time fixed by the Jewish doctors, to know whether a woman is with child or not, as in case of divorce or death: the rule runs thus k;

"every woman that is divorced, or becomes a widow, lo! she may not marry, nor be betrothed, until she waits, יום

תשעים, ninety days (i.e. three months), exclusive of the day in which she is divorced, or her husband dies, and of the day in which she is betrothed; that so it may be known whether she is with child or not, in order to distinguish between the seed of the former, and the seed of the second husband.''

And so in the case of marrying the wife of a brother, that died without issue l, and of newly married couples mistaking their spouses m:

and returned to her own house; at Nazareth, in Galilee; and now it was, that Joseph, to whom she was betrothed, perceived she was with child; and suspecting evil, had a mind to put her away privately; but was informed by an angel of God, in a dream, of the whole matter; and was advised and encouraged to take her to wife, which he accordingly did; see Matthew 1:18.

k Maimon. Hilch. Gerushin, c. 11. sect. 18. Vid. T. Bab. Becorot, fol. 47. 1. l Misn. Yebamot, c. 4. sect. 10. T. Hieros, Yebamot, fol. 6. 1. T. Bab. ib. fol. 34. 2. & 35. 1. Maimon. Hilch. Yebum, c. 1. sect 19. T. Bab. Erubin, fol. 47. 1. m Misn. Yebamot, c. 3. sect. 10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 56. And Mary abode with her about three months — According to some, the departure of Mary from Hebron must have been but a few days before the birth of John; as nine months had now elapsed since Elisabeth's conception; see Luke 1:36. Hence it immediately follows:-