Luke 1:16-40

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.