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Gabriel Predicts Jesus’s Birth

26 In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel  * 1:26 Lk 1:19 was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,  * 1:26 Mt 2:2327 to a virgin engaged  * 1:27 Lit betrothed,* 1:27 Dt 21:23; Is 7:14; Mt 1:18,23 to a man named Joseph, of the house of David.  * 1:27 Mt 1:20; Lk 2:4 The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And the angel came to her and said, "Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you."  * 1:28 Other mss add Blessed are you among women.29 But she was deeply troubled  * 1:29 Lk 1:12 by this statement, wondering what kind of greeting this could be. 30 Then the angel told her, "Do not be afraid, Mary,  * 1:30 Mt 14:27; Lk 1:13 for you have found favor with God.  * 1:30 Gn 6:8; Ex 33:12–17; Jr 31:231 Now listen: You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.  * 1:31 Is 7:14; Mt 1:21,25; Lk 2:2132 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High,  * 1:32 Lk 1:35,76; 3:38; 6:35; 8:28; 9:35; Jn 1:34,49; 11:27; Ac 7:48 and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.  * 1:32 2Sm 7:12–13; 1Kg 2:12; Ps 132:11; Is 9:7; Jr 33:17; Mk 11:1033 He will reign over the house of Jacob  * 1:33 Ex 19:3; Ps 114:1; Is 14:1; 29:22; 46:3 forever, and his kingdom will have no end."  * 1:33 Is 9:6 LXX; Dn 7:14

34 Mary asked the angel, "How can this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man? "  * 1:34 Lit since I do not know a man

35 The angel replied to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you,  * 1:35 Mt 1:18 and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.  * 1:35 Mt 14:33; Lk 4:3,9,41; 22:7036 And consider your relative Elizabeth — even she has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called childless. 37 For nothing will be impossible with God."  * 1:37 Gn 18:14; Lk 18:27

38 "See, I am the Lord’s servant," said Mary. "May it happen to me as you have said." Then the angel left her.