6 1:26And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee, by the name of Nazareth, 1:27to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary. 1:28And coming in to her, he said, Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you! 1:29And she was troubled at his word, and doubted what this salutation meant. 1:30And the angel said to her, Fear not, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 1:31And behold you shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall call his name Jesus. 1:32He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father, 1:33and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
7 1:34And Mary said to the angel, How shall this be, since I know not a man? 1:35And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you; and on that account the holy child shall be called the Son of God. 1:36And behold Elizabeth, your relative, even she is pregnant with a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her called barren; 1:37for nothing is impossible with God. 1:38And Mary said, Behold, I am the servant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.
CHAPTER II.
MARYS VISIT TO ELIZABETH, AND THE BIRTH OF JOHN.
1 1:39AND Mary arose in those days and went in haste to the mountainous country, to the city of Juda. 1:40And she went unto the house of Zachariah and saluted Elizabeth. 1:41And when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, 1:42and cried with a loud voice, and said, Blessed are you among women! and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 1:43And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord has come to me? 1:44For, behold, when the voice of your salutation came to my ears, the babe leaped in my womb with exultation. 1:45And blessed is she that believed; for there shall be an accomplishment of the words spoken to her by the Lord.
2 1:46And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord, 1:47and my spirit exults in God my Saviour; 1:48for he has looked on the low condition of his servant; for, behold, from this time all generations shall call me blessed, 1:49because the mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name; 1:50and his mercy is to generations and generations of them that fear him. 1:51He has made strong his arm; he has scattered the proud with the thought of their hearts; 1:52he has brought down the mighty from thrones, and exalted the humble; 1:53he has filled the hungry with goods, and sent the rich away empty. 1:54He has helped Israel his servant, and remembered his mercy, 1:55as he said to our fathers, to Abraham and his posterity forever. 1:56And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her house.
3 1:57And when Elizabeth's time to bear had fully come, she bore a son; 1:58and her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy to her, and congratulated her. 1:59And they came on the eighth day to circumcise the little child, and called it by the name of its father, Zachariah. 1:60And his mother answered and said, No; but he shall be called John. 1:61And they said to her, There is no one of your relations who is called by this name; 1:62and they made signs to his father, what he wished it to be called. 1:63And asking for a writing-tablet, he wrote, saying, His name is John. And all wondered. 1:64And his mouth was immediately opened, and his tongue [loosed], and he spoke and blessed God. 1:65And fear came on all living around them. All these things were talked of in all the mountainous country of Judea. 1:66And all who heard laid them to heart, saying, What then is this child to be? For the hand of the Lord was also with him.
4 1:67And Zachariah his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying, 1:68Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited and redeemed his people, 1:69and raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David his servant; 1:70as he said by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old; 1:71A salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us, 1:72to perform his mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant, 1:73the oath which he swore to Abraham our father, 1:74to grant us without fear, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, to serve him 1:75in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. 1:76And you, little child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways, 1:77to give a knowledge of salvation to his people, with a forgiveness of sins, 1:78on account of the compassionate mercies of our God, by which a morning from on high has visited us, 1:79to illuminate those sitting in darkness and the shade of death, to direct our feet in the way of peace. 1:80And the child grew, and became strong in spirit, and was in the wilderness till the day of his manifestation to Israel.