1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, 2 she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
2 tn The connotation of the Greek is “before they came together in marital and domestic union” (so BDAG 970 s.v. συνέρχομαι 3).
3 tn Grk “they will call his name.”
4 sn A quotation from Isa 7:14.
5 tn Grk “is translated.”
6 sn An allusion to Isa 8:8, 10 (LXX).