²¹And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and began to wonder^* when^* he was delayed in the temple. ²²And when he^* came out he was not able to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them, and remained unable to speak. ²³And it happened that when the days of his service came to an end, he went away to his home.

²⁴Now after these days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying, ²⁵“Thus the Lord has done for me in the days in which he has concerned himself with me,^* to take away my disgrace among people.”

The Prediction of Jesus’ Birth

²⁶Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named^g Nazareth, ²⁷to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man named^h Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin was Mary. ²⁸And he came to her and^* said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” ²⁹But she was greatly perplexed at the statement, and was pondering what sort of greeting this might be. ³⁰And the angel said to her,

“Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

³¹And behold, you will conceive in the womb and will give birth to a son,

and you will call his name Jesus.

³²This one will be great, and he will be called the Son of the Most High,

and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

³³And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever,ⁱ

and of his kingdom there will be no end.

³⁴And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?” ³⁵And the angel answered and^* said to her,

“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,

and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

Therefore also the one to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.

³⁶And behold, your relative Elizabeth—she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren. ³⁷For nothing will be impossible with God.”^j

Read in Logos

Luke 1:32: He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David …

Footnotes

*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to wonder”)
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal infinitive (“was delayed”)
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came out”) which is understood as temporal
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
gLiterally “to which the name”
hLiterally “to whom the name”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb
iLiterally “for the ages”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
jLiterally “every thing will not be impossible with God”