^{34 Ref} And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?'

^{35 Ref} And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

³⁶ and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

^{37 Ref} because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

^{38 Ref} And Mary said, `Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,' and the messenger went away from her.

^{39 Ref} And Mary having arisen in those days, went to the hill-country, with haste, to a city of Judea,