Luke 1:14
New International Version
He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth,

New Living Translation
You will have great joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

English Standard Version
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

Berean Standard Bible
He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,

Berean Literal Bible
And he will be joy and gladness to you, and many will rejoice at his birth.

King James Bible
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

New King James Version
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

New American Standard Bible
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice over his birth.

NASB 1995
“You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

NASB 1977
“And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Amplified Bible
You will have great joy and delight, and many will rejoice over his birth,

Christian Standard Bible
There will be joy and delight for you, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There will be joy and delight for you, and many will rejoice at his birth.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“You will have joy and gladness and many will rejoice at his birth.”

Contemporary English Version
His birth will make you very happy, and many people will be glad.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice in his nativity.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He will be your pride and joy, and many people will be glad that he was born.

Good News Translation
How glad and happy you will be, and how happy many others will be when he is born!

International Standard Version
You will have great joy, and many people will rejoice at his birth,

Literal Standard Version
and there will be joy to you, and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

Majority Standard Bible
He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,

New American Bible
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

NET Bible
Joy and gladness will come to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,

New Revised Standard Version
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

New Heart English Bible
You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at his birth.

Weymouth New Testament
Gladness and exultant joy shall be yours, and many will rejoice over his birth.

World English Bible
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Young's Literal Translation
and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

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Context
Gabriel Foretells John's Birth
13But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John. 14 He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.…

Cross References
Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.

Luke 1:15
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb.


Treasury of Scripture

And you shall have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

Luke 1:58
And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.

Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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Luke 1
1. The preface of Luke to his whole gospel.
5. The conception of John the Baptist;
26. and of Jesus.
39. The prophecy of Elisabeth and of Mary, concerning Jesus.
57. The nativity and circumcision of John.
67. The prophecy of Zachariah, both of Jesus,
76. and of John.














(14) Many shall rejoice.--The words point to what had been the priest's prayer. He had been seeking the joy of many rather than his own, and now the one was to be fruitful in the other.

Verse 14. - Many shall rejoice at his birth. The gladness which his boy's birth was to bring with it was to be no mere private family rejoicing. The child of his old age, who was to be born, would be the occasion of a true national joy.

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Greek
He will be
ἔσται (estai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

a joy
χαρά (chara)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5479: Joy, gladness, a source of joy. From chairo; cheerfulness, i.e. Calm delight.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

delight
ἀγαλλίασις (agalliasis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 20: Wild joy, ecstatic delight, exultation, exhilaration. From agalliao; exultation; specially, welcome.

to you,
σοι (soi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

many
πολλοὶ (polloi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4183: Much, many; often.

will rejoice
χαρήσονται (charēsontai)
Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 5463: A primary verb; to be 'cheer'ful, i.e. Calmly happy or well-off; impersonally, especially as salutation, be well.

at
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

his
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

birth,
γενέσει (genesei)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1078: Birth, lineage, descent. From the same as genea; nativity; figuratively, nature.


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