Luke 1:35-80

Bishops^{(i) 35} And the Angel aunswered, & saide vnto her: The holy ghost shall come vpon thee, & the power of the hyest shall ouershadowe thee. Therefore also that holy thyng whiche shalbe borne, shalbe called the sonne of God ³⁶ And beholde, thy cosin Elizabeth, she hath also conceaued a sonne in her olde age: & this is her sixth moneth, whiche was called barren ³⁷ For with God, shall nothyng be vnpossible ³⁸ And Marie saide: Beholde the handmayden of the Lorde, be it vnto me accordyng to thy worde. And the Angel departed from her ³⁹ And Marie arose in those dayes, & went into the hyll countrey with haste, into a citie of Iuda ⁴⁰ And entred into the house of Zacharie, and saluted Elizabeth ⁴¹ And it came to passe, that when Elizabeth hearde the salutation of Marie, the babe sprang in her wombe, and Elizabeth was fylled with the holy ghost ⁴² And she cryed with a loude voyce, and saide: Blessed art thou among women, because ye fruite of thy wombe is blessed ⁴³ And whence commeth this to me, that ye mother of my lord should come to me ⁴⁴ For loe, assoone as the voyce of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe sprang in my wombe for ioy ⁴⁵ And blessed is she that beleued: For those thinges shalbe perfourmed, which were tolde her from the Lorde ⁴⁶ And Marie saide: My soule magnifieth the Lorde ⁴⁷ And my spirite reioyceth in God my sauiour ⁴⁸ For he hath loked on the lowe degree of his handmayden: For loe, now from hencefoorth shal all generations call me blessed ⁴⁹ Because, he that is mightie, hath done to me great thinges, & holy is his name ⁵⁰ And his mercy is on them that feare him, from generation to generation ⁵¹ He hath shewed stregth with his arme, he hath scattered them that are proude, in the imagination of their heartes ⁵² He hath put downe the myghtie fro their seates, and exalted them of lowe degree ⁵³ He hath fylled the hungry with good thynges, & sent away the riche emptie ⁵⁴ He hath helped his seruaunt Israel, in remembraunce of his mercy ⁵⁵ ( Euen as he promised to our fathers, Abraham, and to his seede) for euer ⁵⁶ And Marie abode with her about three monethes, and returned agayne to her owne house ⁵⁷ Elizabethes tyme came, that she shoulde be deliuered, and she brought foorth a sonne ⁵⁸ And her neyghbours, and her cosins hearde howe the Lorde hadde shewed great mercy vpo her, and they reioyced with her ⁵⁹ And it came to passe, that on the eyght day they came to circumcise the chylde, and called his name Zacharias, after the name of his father ⁶⁰ And his mother aunswered, and said: not so, but he shalbe called Iohn ⁶¹ And they sayde vnto her: There is none in thy kinrede that is named with this name ⁶² And they made signes to his father, howe he woulde haue hym called ⁶³ And he asked for wrytyng tables, and wrote, saying, his name is Iohn. And they marueyled all ⁶⁴ And his mouth was opened immediatly, and his tounge [loosed] & he spake, and praysed God ⁶⁵ And feare came on all them that dwelt nye vnto them: And all these sayinges were noysed abrode throughout all the hyll countrey of Iurie ⁶⁶ And all they that hearde them, layde them vp in their heartes, saying: What maner of chylde shall this be? And the hande of the Lorde was with hym ⁶⁷ And his father Zacharias was filled with ye holy ghost, & prophesied, saying ⁶⁸ Praysed be ye Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited & redeemed his people ⁶⁹ And hath raysed vp an horne of saluation vnto vs, in the house of his seruaunt Dauid ⁷⁰ Euen as he promised by the mouth of his holy prophetes, whiche were sence the worlde began ⁷¹ That he would saue vs from our enemies, and from the hande of all that hate vs ⁷² That he would deale mercyfully with our fathers, and remember his holy couenaunt ⁷³ And that he woulde perfourme the oth, which he sware to our father Abraham, for to geue vs ⁷⁴ That we, beyng deliuered out of the handes of our enemies, might serue him without feare ⁷⁵ All the dayes of our life, in [such] holynesse and righteousnes [as are accepted] before hym ⁷⁶ And thou childe shalt be called the prophete of the hyghest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lorde, to prepare his wayes ⁷⁷ To geue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes ⁷⁸ Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spryng from an hygh hath visited vs ⁷⁹ To geue lyght to them that sitte in darknesse, and in the shadowe of death, to guide our feete into the way of peace ⁸⁰ And the chylde grewe, and waxed strong in spirite, and was in wildernesse till the day came when he should shewe hym selfe vnto the Israelites