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”

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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