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25 “Look what the Lord has done for me! My people were ashamed[a] of me, but now the Lord has taken away that shame.”

An Angel Appears to Mary

26 During Elizabeth’s sixth month of pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin. She was engaged to marry a man named Joseph from the family of David. Her name was Mary.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:25 ashamed The Jewish people thought it was a disgrace for women not to have children.

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