Luke 1:31-77

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.

⁶⁴And anon his mouth was opened, and his tongue, and he spake, and blessed God.

⁶⁵And dread was made on all their neighbours, and all these words were published on all the mountains or all the hilly places of Judea.

⁶⁶And all men that heard putted in their heart, and said, What manner child shall this be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁶⁷And Zechariah, his father, was full-filled or filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, and said,

⁶⁸Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited, and made redemption of his people.

⁶⁹And he hath raised to us an horn of health, in the house of David, his child.

⁷⁰As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, that were from the world.

⁷¹Health from our enemies, and from the hand of all men that hated us.

⁷²To do mercy with our fathers, and to have mind of his holy testament.

⁷³The great oath that he swore to Abraham, our father,

⁷⁴to give himself to us. That we without dread, delivered from the hand of our enemies, serve to him, or That we delivered from the hand of our enemies, serve to him without dread,

⁷⁵in holiness and rightwiseness before him in all our days.

⁷⁶And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways.

⁷⁷To give science of health to his people, into remission of their sins;