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Luke 2:37

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.

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Luke 2:37 in other translations

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Luke 2:37 · World English Bible

Luke 2:37 in context

  1. 35yea and a sword shall pierce through thine own soul; that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.
  2. 36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
  3. 37and 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.
  4. 38And coming up at that very hour she gave thanks unto God, and spake of him to all them that were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.
  5. 39And when they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.