Luke 1:34
Neutral key: nrf1:LUK.001.034
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Bible text
Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”
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Statistics
- 14 Verse-level uses Counting rule CR-BASE: every citation of this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 14 Explicit citations Counting rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE, as in the Top 100: only citations that name this verse.
- #1,302 Rank Rank 1,302 of 19,199 verses with explicit citations; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping Position 25,052 in the sequence prot66.nrf, New Testament
14 of the verse-level uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
Persons in this verse
Topics of this verse
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Numbering in the versification systems
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse unit has the following labels (mapping release R8); labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations: 14 occurrences
Occurrences
14 approved public occurrences in the profile official@2, newest first.
- Date
- Jan 1, 1225 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Summa Theologiae, Third Part, Question 28, Article
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Thomas Aquinas
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1221 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Luke, Chapter
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Bonaventure
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1086 – Dec 31, 1158
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Sermons, On The 'Missus Est', Homily IV
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- Cîteaux Abbey
- Venue
- Clairvaux
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 667 – Dec 31, 735
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, On the Gospel of Luke
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Bede
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- England
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 354 – Dec 31, 430
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Of Holy Virginity, Section
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Augustine of Hippo
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 344 – Dec 31, 407
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34-35
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Catena Aurea by Aquinas
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- John Chrysostom
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 330 – Dec 31, 400
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34-35
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Catena Aurea by Aquinas
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 330 – Dec 31, 400
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34-35
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Oration on the Savior's Nativity (Greek)
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 334 – Dec 31, 397
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34-35
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Catena Aurea by Aquinas
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Ambrose of Milan
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- Milan
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0379
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34-35
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, QUESTIONS ON THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, QUESTION 38: ON THE OVERSHADOWING OF THE VIRGIN
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Ambrosiaster
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- Ancient Rome
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0379
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34-35
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, QUESTIONS ON THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, QUESTION 51: ON THE OVERSHADOWING OF THE VIRGIN
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Ambrosiaster
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- Ancient Rome
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 213 – Dec 31, 270
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34-35
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Twelve Topics on the Faith, Topic
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Gregory of Neocaesarea
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 95 – Dec 31, 170
- Cited as
- Luke 1:31-35
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, The First Apology, Chapter XXXIII
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Justin Martyr
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Cited as
- Luke 1:34-35
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Catena Aurea by Aquinas
- Usage
- Analysis
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed: rule CR-BASE@1 / CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE@1, profile official@2, epoch 111
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – verse-level uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – explicit citations (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 111, published Nov 6, 2026, 9:15 AM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
prot66.nrf, mapping release R8- Rank
- As in the Top 100: explicit citations, highest first, over the verses with at least one; tied verses share a rank.
- Occurrences
- Approved public occurrences of the profile shown, with at least one passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. This page shows no Bible text. How we count