Luke 1:11-77

¹¹And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, and stood on the right half of the altar of incense.

¹²And Zechariah seeing was afraid or distroubled, and dread fell upon him.

¹³And the angel said to him, Zechariah, dread thou not; for thy prayer is heard, and Elisabeth, thy wife, shall bear to thee a son, and his name shall be called John.

¹⁴And joy and gladding shall be to thee; and many shall have joy in his nativity, or birth.

¹⁵For he shall be great before the Lord, and he shall not drink wine nor cider, and he shall be full-filled or filled with the Holy Ghost, yet from his mother’s womb.

¹⁶And he shall convert many of the children of Israel to their Lord God;

¹⁷and he shall go before him in the spirit and virtue of Elijah; and he shall turn the hearts of the fathers into the sons, and men out of belief, or that believe not, to the prudence of just men, to make ready a perfect people to the Lord.

¹⁸And Zechariah said to the angel, Whereof shall I know this? for I am old, and my wife hath gone far in her days.

¹⁹And the angel answered, and said to him, For I am Gabriel, that stand nigh before God; and I am sent to thee to speak, and to evangelize or to tell to thee these things.

²⁰And lo! thou shalt be dumb, and thou shalt not be able to speak till into the day, in which these things shall be done; for thou hast not believed to my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.

²¹And the people was abiding Zechariah, and they wondered, that he tarried in the temple.

²²And he went out, and might not speak to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he beckoned to them, and dwelled still dumb.

²³And it was done, when the days of his office were fulfilled, he went into his house.

²⁴And after these days Elisabeth, his wife, conceived, and hid her five months, and said,

²⁵For so the Lord did to me in the days, in which he beheld, to take away my reproof or my shame among men.

²⁶But in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, whose name was Nazareth,

²⁷to a maiden or a virgin, wedded to a man, whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the name of the maiden was Mary.

²⁸And the angel entered to her, and said, Hail, full of grace; the Lord is with thee; blessed be thou among women.

²⁹And when she had heard, she was troubled in his word, and thought what manner salutation this was.

³⁰And the angel said to her, Dread thou not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God.

³¹Lo! thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

³²This or He shall be great, and he shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give to him the seat of David, his father,

³³and he shall reign in the house of Jacob into without end, and of his realm shall be none end.

³⁴And Mary said to the angel, On what manner shall this thing be done, for I know not man? or I know no man?

³⁵And the angel answered, and said to her, The Holy Ghost shall come from above into thee, and the virtue of the Highest shall overshadow thee; and therefore that holy thing that shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.

³⁶And lo! Elisabeth, thy cousin, and she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this month is the sixth to her that is called barren;

³⁷for every word shall not be impossible with God.

³⁸And Mary said, Lo! the handmaid/ the handmaiden of the Lord; be it done to me after thy word. And the angel departed from her.

³⁹And Mary rose up in those days, and went with haste into the mountains or the hilly places, into a city of Judea.

⁴⁰And she entered into the house of Zechariah, and greeted Elisabeth.

⁴¹And it was done, as Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the young child in her womb gladded. And Elisabeth was full-filled or filled with the Holy Ghost,

⁴²and cried with a great voice, and said, Blessed be thou among women, and blessed be the fruit of thy womb.

⁴³And whereof is this thing to me, that the mother of my Lord come to me?

⁴⁴For lo! as the voice of thy salutation was made in mine ears, the young child gladded in joy or with joy in my womb.

⁴⁵And blessed be thou, that hast believed, for those things that be said of or from the Lord to thee, shall be perfectly done.

⁴⁶And Mary said, My soul magnifieth the Lord,

⁴⁷and my spirit hath gladded in God, mine health or mine health-giver.

⁴⁸For he hath beheld the meekness of his handmaid/his handmaiden. For lo! of this all generations shall say that I am blessed.

⁴⁹For he that is mighty hath done to me great things, and his name is holy.

⁵⁰And his mercy is from kindred into kindreds, to men that dread him.

⁵¹He made might in his arm, he scattered proud men with the thought of his heart.

⁵²He put down mighty men from their seats, and enhanced meek men.

⁵³He hath full-filled hungry men with goods or He hath filled hungry men with good things, and he hath left rich men void.

⁵⁴He, having mind of his mercy, took Israel, his child;

⁵⁵as he hath spoken to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed, into worlds.

⁵⁶And Mary dwelled with her, as it were three months, and turned again in to her house.

⁵⁷But the time of bearing child was fulfilled to Elisabeth, and she bare a son.

⁵⁸And the neighbours and the cousins of her heard, that the Lord had magnified his mercy with her; and they thanked him or they together joyed to her.

⁵⁹And it was done in the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zechariah, by the name of his father.

⁶⁰And his mother answered, and said, Nay, but he shall be called John.

⁶¹And they said to her, For no man is in thy kindred, that is called by this name.

⁶²And they beckoned to his father, what he would that he were called.

⁶³And he asking a pointel, wrote, saying, John is his name. And all men wondered.

⁶⁴And anon his mouth was opened, and his tongue, and he spake, and blessed God.

⁶⁵And dread was made on all their neighbours, and all these words were published on all the mountains or all the hilly places of Judea.

⁶⁶And all men that heard putted in their heart, and said, What manner child shall this be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁶⁷And Zechariah, his father, was full-filled or filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, and said,

⁶⁸Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited, and made redemption of his people.

⁶⁹And he hath raised to us an horn of health, in the house of David, his child.

⁷⁰As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, that were from the world.

⁷¹Health from our enemies, and from the hand of all men that hated us.

⁷²To do mercy with our fathers, and to have mind of his holy testament.

⁷³The great oath that he swore to Abraham, our father,

⁷⁴to give himself to us. That we without dread, delivered from the hand of our enemies, serve to him, or That we delivered from the hand of our enemies, serve to him without dread,

⁷⁵in holiness and rightwiseness before him in all our days.

⁷⁶And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways.

⁷⁷To give science of health to his people, into remission of their sins;