Luke 1:57–66: preparing the way for jesus

In Genesis 3, after sin entered the world, God promised to send one born of a woman to crush Satan (Gen. 3:15). He then chose a nation through which this Deliverer would come. God made a covenant with Abraham, the founder of that nation, promising that all the families of the earth would be blessed through the one who would come from Abraham’s line (Gen. 12:1–3). He later reaffirmed this covenant to Abraham’s son, Isaac (Gen. 26:2–5) and to Isaac’s son, Jacob (Gen. 28:10–15; 35:9–12).