23. When the days of his priestly service were ended, he went back home.
24. After these days Elizabeth his wife became pregnant, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying,
25. "This is the way the Lord has dealt with me in the days when He looked with favor upon me, to take away my disgrace among men."
26. Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,
27. to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
28. And coming in, he said to her, "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you."