Luke 1:33-66

³³and He will reign over the house of Jacob into the ages; indeed, of His kingdom there will be no end!”

³⁴So Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I do not know a man?”

³⁵In answer the angel said to her: “Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will hover over you; precisely for this reason the holy One who is to be born will be called ‘Son of God’!

³⁶Furthermore, your relative Elizabeth, she has actually conceived a son in her old age and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren;

³⁷because any word spoken by God will be possible.”

³⁸So Mary said: “Yes, I am the Lord's slave! Let it happen to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

³⁹Then Mary quickly got ready and went into the hill country in those days, to a town of Judah,

⁴⁰and entered the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth.

⁴¹Well it happened that as Elizabeth heard Mary's salutation the babe bounced up and down in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with Holy Spirit.

⁴²And she cried out with a great voice and said: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the Fruit of your womb!

⁴³Why am I so favored that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

⁴⁴Yes indeed, because as the sound of your salutation came into my ears the babe bounced up and down in my womb for joy.

⁴⁵Blessed is she who believed, because there will be a fulfillment of the things that have been spoken to her from the Lord.”

⁴⁶So Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,

⁴⁷and my spirit has exulted over God my Savior,

⁴⁸in that He paid attention to the humble station of His slave (f). Yes indeed, because from now on all generations will declare me to be highly favored,

⁴⁹in that the Mighty One did sublime things for me, and Holy is His name.

⁵⁰His mercy is for generations of generations to those fearing Him.

⁵¹He has done mighty deeds with His arm; He has dispersed the arrogant in the reasoning of their hearts.

⁵²He has dethroned rulers and exalted the lowly.

⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.

⁵⁴He has taken the part of His servant Israel, in remembrance of mercy,

⁵⁵just as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed while there is an age.”

⁵⁶So Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her house.

⁵⁷Now the time for Elizabeth to give birth was completed and she bore a son.

⁵⁸Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had used His great mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.

⁵⁹So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child, and they started calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias.

⁶⁰His mother reacted and said, “Absolutely not; he shall be called John!”

⁶¹So they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”

⁶²So they started motioning to his father, as to what he would have him called.

⁶³Asking for a writing tablet he wrote this: “His name is to be John!” They all marveled.

⁶⁴Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue freed and he started to speak, blessing God.

⁶⁵(Well a fear came on all who lived around them; and all these sayings kept being talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

⁶⁶All who heard kept them in their hearts saying, “What then will this child be?” And the hand of the Lord was with him.)