³ And the angel of the Lord came to the woman, and said to her, See now! though you have never given birth to children, you will be with child and give birth to a son.

¹³ But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

¹¹ And he saw an angel of the Lord in his place on the right side of the altar.

¹¹ Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it.

¹² And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.

¹ Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:

²⁸ And the angel came in to her and said, Peace be with you, to whom special grace has been given; the Lord is with you.

²⁹ But she was greatly troubled at his words, and said to herself, What may be the purpose of these words?

³⁰ And the angel said to her, Have no fear, Mary, for you have God's approval.

³¹ And see, you will give birth to a son, and his name will be Jesus.

³² He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:

³³ He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

³⁴ And Mary said to the angel, How may this be, because I have had no knowledge of a man?

³⁵ And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.

³⁶ Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.

³⁷ For there is nothing which God is not able to do.

³⁸ And Mary said: I am the servant of the Lord; may it be to me as you say. And the angel went away.

¹⁶ And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.

²⁰ Now the time came when Hannah, being with child, gave birth to a son; and she gave him the name Samuel, Because, she said, I made a prayer to the Lord for him.

¹⁰ So the woman, running quickly, gave her husband the news, saying, I have seen the man who came to me the other day.

⁸ Then Manoah made prayer to the Lord, and said, O Lord, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and make clear to us what we are to do for the child who is to come.

⁶ Then the woman came in, and said to her husband, A man came to me, and his form was like the form of a god, causing great fear; I put no question to him about where he came from, and he did not give me his name;

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.

¹⁶ And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

⁷ And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

⁹ And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

¹⁰ And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

¹¹ And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

¹² And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

¹³ And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?