Luke 1:30-33

1:30 So ¹  the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, ²  Mary, for you have found favor ³  with God! 1:31 Listen: ⁴  You will become pregnant ⁵  and give birth to ⁶  a son, and you will name him ⁷  Jesus. ⁸  1:32 He ⁹  will be great, ¹⁰  and will be called the Son of the Most High, ¹¹  and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father ¹²  David. 1:33 He ¹³  will reign over the house of Jacob ¹⁴  forever, and his kingdom will never end.”

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate that Gabriel’s statement is a response to Mary’s perplexity over the greeting.

² sn Do not be afraid. See 1:13 for a similar statement to Zechariah.

³ tn Or “grace.”

⁴ tn Grk “And behold.”

⁵ tn Grk “you will conceive in your womb.”

⁶ tn Or “and bear.”

⁷ tn Grk “you will call his name.”

⁸ tn See v. 13 for a similar construction.

⁹ tn Grk “this one.”

¹⁰ sn Compare the description of Jesus as great here with 1:15, “great before the Lord.” Jesus is greater than John, since he is Messiah compared to a prophet. Great is stated absolutely without qualification to make the point.

¹¹ sn The expression Most High is a way to refer to God without naming him. Such avoiding of direct reference to God was common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.

¹² tn Or “ancestor.”

¹³ tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style. A new sentence is begun here in the translation because of the length of the sentence in Greek.

¹⁴ tn Or “over Israel.”