NARRATOR: The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.
GABRIEL: Hello, highly-favored daughter. God is with you. Blessed are you among women.
NARRATOR: The angel’s words thoroughly confused Mary. She wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
GABRIEL: Do not fear, Mary, for you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will call him Jesus. He will be great. He will be called the Son of the Most High. God will give him the throne of David, his father. He will rule over the house of Jacob forever. His reign will have no end.
MARY: How will this be since I do not know a man?
GABRIEL: The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, so that your holy child will be called the Son of God. Now, Elizabeth, your kinswoman, has conceived a child in her old age. She who was barren is in her sixth month. Nothing is impossible with God.
MARY: I am God’s servant. Let it happen to me as you say.
NARRATOR: Then the angel left her.
Luke 1.26-38