Luke 1:20-63

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.