Luke 1:16-40

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

¹⁷and he shall go before him in the spirit and virtue of Elias (or and he shall go before him in the spirit and in the power 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 (or to the wisdom of the righteous), to make ready a perfect people to the Lord.

¹⁸And Zacharias 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, (or Yea, I am Gabriel, who standeth near to 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 (or for thou hast not believed my words), which shall be fulfilled in their time.

²¹And the people was abiding Zacharias (or And the people were waiting for Zechariah), and they wondered, (why) that he tarried (so) 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(self) (for) 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 to 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 (this), she was troubled in his word (or she was troubled by his words), and thought what manner salutation this was.

³⁰And the angel said to her, Dread thou not, Mary, (or Fear 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 shall be great 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, (or and the Lord God shall give him the throne of his father David),

³³and he shall reign in the house of Jacob into without end, and of his realm shall be none end (or and there shall be no end to his Kingdom).

³⁴And Mary said to the angel, On what manner shall this thing be done, for I know not (a) man? or for 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, (or The Holy Spirit shall come from above upon thee, and the power 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. (for nothing is impossible with God.)

³⁸And Mary said, Lo! the handmaid of the Lord or Lo! 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 into the hilly places, into a city of Judea.

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