Luke 2:37
 Luke 2:37 
New International Version (©2011)
and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then she lived as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and then as a widow for 84 years. She never left the Temple, but continued to worship there night and day with times of fasting and prayer.

NET Bible (©2006)
She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And she had been a widow about 84 years, and she had not departed from The Temple, and with fastings and with prayers she was serving by day and night.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
and she had been a widow for 84 years. Anna never left the temple courtyard but worshiped day and night by fasting and praying.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

American King James Version
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

American Standard Version
and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she was a widow until fourscore and four years; who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day.

Darby Bible Translation
and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;

English Revised Version
and she had been a widow even for fourscore and four years), which departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

Webster's Bible Translation
And she was a widow of about eighty four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Weymouth New Testament
and then being a widow of eighty-four years. She was never absent from the Temple, but worshipped, by day and by night, with fasting and prayer.

World English Bible
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Young's Literal Translation
and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years,.... Which is not the date of her whole age, as some have thought, but of her widowhood state, as distinct from her marriage state, and the time of her virginity. And this sense all the versions favour,

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Vincent's Word Studies

Of about fourscore and four years (ὡς ἐτῶν ὀγδοήκοντα τεσσάρων)

The A. V. might be supposed to be stating her age; but the best texts read ἕως, until, instead of ὡς about; and the statement refers to the time of her widowhood; a widow even for (or up to) fourscore and four years. So Rev.

Served (λατρεύουσα)

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years - That is, she was about 84 years of age. It does not mean that she had been a widow for that long time.

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Departed not from the temple - Attended constantly at the hours of prayer, which were nine in the morning and three in the afternoon. See Acts 2:15; Acts 3:1. It does not appear that women had any other functions to perform in that holy place.

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Geneva Study Bible

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.


People's New Testament

2:37 A widow for fourscore and four years. She had passed seven years with a husband when young and then remained a widow until, at this time, she was eighty-four years old, devoting herself to a religious life.

Departed not from the temple. Probably assigned, on account of her saintly character, a chamber in the temple.


Wesley's Notes

2:37 Fourscore and four years - These were the years of her life, not her widowhood only. Who departed not from the temple - Who attended there at all the stated hours of prayer. But served God with fastings and prayers - Even at that age. Night and day - That is, spending therein a considerable part of the night, as well as of the day.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

37. departed not from the temple-was found there at all stated hours of the day, and even during the night services of the temple watchmen (Ps 134:1, 2), "serving God with fastings and prayer." (See 1Ti 5:5, suggested by this.)


Luke 2:37 Parallel Commentaries
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The Prophecy of Anna
36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; 37And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 38And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise to the Lord, and spoke of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

Luke 5:33 They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking."
Acts 13:3 So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
Acts 14:23 Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
1 Timothy 5:5 The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.