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25 [a]Because thus the Lord has dealt with me in the days when He deigned to look on me to take away my reproach among men.(A)

26 Now in the sixth month [after that], the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth,

27 To a girl never having been married and a [b]virgin engaged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:25 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Luke 1:27 This Greek word parthenos (virgin) is used in Isa. 7:14 in The Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament translation which Jesus read and quoted.

25 Adonai has done this for me! In these days He looked upon me, to take away my disgrace among the people.”[a]

Prophecy of Birth to the Virgin

26 Then in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by Adonai into a town in the Galilee named Natzeret 27 and to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Miriam.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:25 cf. Isa. 54:1-10.