Luke 1:16-40

¹⁶and many of the chyldren of Israel shall he tourne to their Lorde God.

¹⁷And he shall goo before him in the sprete and power of Helyas to tourne the hertes of the fathers to the chyldren and the vnbelevers to the wysdom of the iuste men: to make the people redy for the Lorde.

¹⁸And Zacharias sayde vnto the angell: Wher by shall I knowe this? seinge that I am olde and my wyfe well stricken in yeares.

¹⁹And the angell answered and sayde vnto him: I am Gabriell that stonde in the presens of God and am sent to speake vnto the: and to shewe the these glad tydinges.

²⁰And beholde thou shalt be domme and not able to speake vntyll the tyme that these thinges be performed because thou belevedst not my wordes which shalbe fulfilled in their season.

²¹And the people wayted for zacharias and mervelled that he taryed in the temple.

²²And when he cam oute he could not speake vnto them. Wherby they perceaved that he had sene some vision in the temple. And he beckened vnto them and remayned speachlesse.

²³And it fortuned assone as the tyme of his office was oute he departed home into his awne housse.

²⁴And after thoose dayes his wyfe Elizabeth conceaved and hyd her sylfe .v. monethes sayinge:

²⁵This wyse hath God dealte with me in the dayes when he loked on me to take from me the rebuke that I suffred amonge men.

²⁶And in the .vi. moneth the angell Gabriel was sent from god vnto a cite of Galile named Nazareth

²⁷to a virgin spoused to a man whose name was Ioseph of the housse of David and the virgins name was Mary.

²⁸And the angell went in vnto her and sayde: Hayle full of grace the Lorde is with the: blessed arte thou amonge wemen.

²⁹When she sawe him she was abasshed at his sayinge: and cast in her mynde what maner of salutacion that shuld be.

³⁰And the angell sayde vnto her: feare not Mary: for thou hast founde grace with god.

³¹Loo: thou shalt conceave in thy wombe and shalt beare a sonne and shalt call his name Iesus.

³²He shalbe greate and shalbe called the sonne of the hyest. And the lorde God shall geve vnto him the seate of his father David

³³and he shall raygne over the housse of Iacob forever and of his kyngdome shalbe none ende.

³⁴Then sayd Mary vnto the angell: How shall this be seinge I knowe not a man?

³⁵And the angell answered and sayd vnto her: The holy goost shall come apon the and the power of the hyest shall over shaddowe the. Therfore also the holy thinge which shalbe borne shalbe called the sonne of god.

³⁶And beholde thy cosen Elizabeth she hath also conceaved a sonne in her age. And this is hyr sixte moneth though she be called barren:

³⁷for with god can nothinge be vnpossible.

³⁸And Mary sayd: beholde the honde mayden of the lorde be it vnto me even as thou hast sayde. And the angell departed from her.

³⁹And Mary arose in thoose dayes and went into the mountayns with hast into a cite of Iurie

⁴⁰and entred into the housse of zachary and saluted Elizabeth.