Luke 1:28

Luke 1:28

Christ’s Birth Announced to Mary

26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

27 to a virgin ^abetrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

28 And having come in, the angel said to her, ^a“Rejoice, highly favored one, ^bthe Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”

29 But¹ when she saw him, ^ashe was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was.

30 Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found ^afavor with God.

31 ^aAnd behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and ^bshall call His name Jesus.

32 He will be great, ^aand will be called the Son of the Highest; and ^bthe Lord God will give Him the ^cthrone of His ^dfather David.

33 ^aAnd He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”

34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I¹ do not know a man?”

35 And the angel answered and said to her, ^a“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called ^bthe Son of God.

36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.

37 For ^awith God nothing will be impossible.”

38 Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

Mary Visits Elizabeth

39 Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, ^ato a city of Judah,

40 and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Highly favoured (kexaritwmenh). Perfect passive participle of xaritow and means endowed with grace (xariv), enriched with grace as in Ephesians 1:6, non ut mater gratiae, sed ut filia gratiae (Bengel). The Vulgate gratiae plena "is right, if it means 'full of grace which thou hast received'; wrong, if it means 'full of grace which thou hast to bestow"' (Plummer). The oldest MSS. do not have "Blessed art thou among women" here, but in verse Luke 1:42.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 1:28:**

Luke 1:30
Luke 3:23
Luke 4:22
John 1:14
Acts 10:38
Acts 11:23
Ephesians 1:6

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