Luke 1:13

1:13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, ¹  and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you ²  will name him John. ³ 

Luke 1:30-31

1:30 So ⁴  the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, ⁵  Mary, for you have found favor ⁶  with God! 1:31 Listen: ⁷  You will become pregnant ⁸  and give birth to ⁹  a son, and you will name him ¹⁰  Jesus. ¹¹ 

[1:13]  ¹ tn The passive means that the prayer was heard by God.

[1:13]  ² tn Grk “a son, and you”; καί (kai) has not been translated. Instead a semicolon is used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:13]  ³ tn Grk “you will call his name John.” The future tense here functions like a command (see ExSyn 569-70). This same construction occurs in v. 31.

[1:30]  ⁴ 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.

[1:30]  ⁵ sn Do not be afraid. See 1:13 for a similar statement to Zechariah.

[1:30]  ⁶ tn Or “grace.”

[1:31]  ⁷ tn Grk “And behold.”

[1:31]  ⁸ tn Grk “you will conceive in your womb.”

[1:31]  ⁹ tn Or “and bear.”

[1:31]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “you will call his name.”

[1:31]  ¹¹ tn See v. 13 for a similar construction.