²⁵ “How good the Lord is to me,” she would say, “now that he has taken away the shame that I have suffered.”

A vision comes to a young woman in Nazareth

^26-28 Then, six months after Zacharias’ vision, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a Galilean town, Nazareth by name, to a young woman who was engaged to a man called Joseph. The girl’s name was Mary. The angel entered her room and said, “Greetings to you, Mary. O favoured one!—the Lord be with you!”