Luke 1:26–45

²⁶And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which is Nazareth, ²⁷to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name is Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin is Mary. ²⁸And the messenger having come in unto her, said, ‘Hail, favoured one, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women;’ ²⁹and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was reasoning of what kind this salutation may be. ³⁰And the messenger said to her, ‘Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour with God; ³¹and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus; ³²he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father, ³³and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages; and of his reign there shall be no end.’ ³⁴And Mary said unto the messenger, ‘How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?’ ³⁵And the messenger answering said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God; ³⁶and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren; ³⁷because nothing shall be impossible with God.’ ³⁸And Mary said, ‘Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,’ and the messenger went away from her.

³⁹And Mary having arisen in those days, went to the hill-country, with haste, to a city of Judea, ⁴⁰and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. ⁴¹And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, ⁴²and spake out with a loud voice, and said, ‘Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb; ⁴³and whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord might come unto me? ⁴⁴for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb; ⁴⁵and happy is she who did believe, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.’