Luke 1:24-62

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.

⁴¹And it fortuned as Elizabeth hearde the salutacion of Mary the babe spronge in her belly. And Elizabeth was filled with the holy goost

⁴²and cryed with a loude voyce and sayde: Blessed arte thou amonge wemen and blessed is the frute of thy wombe.

⁴³And whence hapeneth this to me that the mother of my Lorde shuld come to me?

⁴⁴For loo assone as the voyce of thy salutacion sownded in myne eares the babe sprange in my belly for ioye.

⁴⁵And blessed arte thou that belevedst: for thoose thinges shalbe performed wich were tolde the from the lorde.

⁴⁶And Mary sayde. My soule magnifieth the Lorde.

⁴⁷And my sprete reioyseth in god my savioure

⁴⁸For he hath loked on the povre degre of his honde mayde. Beholde now from hence forth shall all generacions call me blessed.

⁴⁹For he that is myghty hath done to me greate thinges and holye is his name.

⁵⁰And his mercy is on them that feare him thorow oute all generacions.

⁵¹He sheweth strength with his arme he scattereth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hertes.

⁵²He putteth doune the myghty from their seates and exalteth them of lowe degre.

⁵³He filleth the hongry with good thinges: and sendeth awaye the ryche emptye.

⁵⁴He remembreth mercy: and helpeth his servaunt Israel.

⁵⁵Even as he promised to oure fathers Abraham and to his seede for ever.

⁵⁶And mary aboode with hyr aboute a .iii. monethes and retourned agayne to hyr awne housse.

⁵⁷Elizabethes tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered and she brought forth a sonne.

⁵⁸And her neghboures and her cosins hearde tell how the lorde had shewed great mercy vpon her and they reioysed with her.

⁵⁹And it fortuned the eyght daye: they cam to circumcise the chylde: and called his name zacharias after the name of his father.

⁶⁰How be it his mother answered and sayd: not so but he shalbe called Ihon.

⁶¹And they sayd vnto hyr: Ther is none of thy kynne that is named with this name.

⁶²And they made signes to his father how he wolde have him called.