25 “Thus the Lord has done for me in the days in which he has concerned himself with me,[a] to take away my disgrace among people.”

The Prediction of Jesus’ Birth

26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named[b] Nazareth, 27 to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man named[c] Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin was Mary.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:25 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Luke 1:26 Literally “to which the name”
  3. Luke 1:27 Literally “to whom the name”