25 “The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace(A) among the people.”

Gabriel Predicts Jesus’s Birth

26 In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel(B) was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,(C) 27 to a virgin engaged[a](D) to a man named Joseph, of the house of David.(E) The virgin’s name was Mary.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:27 Lit betrothed

25 “The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace(A) among the people.”

The Birth of Jesus Foretold

26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel(B) to Nazareth,(C) a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph,(D) a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

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