Luke 1:42-45

1:42 She ¹  exclaimed with a loud voice, ²  “Blessed are you among women, ³  and blessed is the child ⁴  in your womb! 1:43 And who am I ⁵  that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me? 1:44 For the instant ⁶  the sound of your greeting reached my ears, ⁷  the baby in my womb leaped for joy. ⁸  1:45 And blessed ⁹  is she who believed that ¹⁰  what was spoken to her by ¹¹  the Lord would be fulfilled.” ¹² 

[1:42]  ¹ tn Grk “and she.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[1:42]  ² tn Grk “and she exclaimed with a great cry and said.” The verb εἶπεν (eipen, “said”) has not been included in the translation since it is redundant in contemporary English.

[1:42]  ³ sn The commendation Blessed are you among women means that Mary has a unique privilege to be the mother of the promised one of God.

[1:42]  ⁴ tn Grk “fruit,” which is figurative here for the child she would give birth to.

[1:43]  ⁵ tn Grk “From where this to me?” The translation suggests the note of humility and surprise that Elizabeth feels in being a part of these events. The ἵνα (Jina) clause which follows explains what “this” is. A literal translation would read “From where this to me, that is, that the mother of my Lord comes to visit me?”

[1:44]  ⁹ tn Grk “for behold.”

[1:44]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “when the sound of your greeting [reached] my ears.”

[1:44]  ¹¹ sn On the statement the baby in my womb leaped for joy see both 1:14 and 1:47. This notes a fulfillment of God’s promised word.

[1:45]  ¹³ sn Again the note of being blessed makes the key point of the passage about believing God.

[1:45]  ¹⁴ tn This ὅτι (Joti) clause, technically indirect discourse after πιστεύω (pisteuw), explains the content of the faith, a belief in God’s promise coming to pass.

[1:45]  ¹⁵ tn That is, “what was said to her (by the angel) at the Lord’s command” (BDAG 756 s.v. παρά A.2).

[1:45]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “that there would be a fulfillment of what was said to her from the Lord.”