23 And it happened that when the days of his service came to an end, he went away to his home.
24 Now after these days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying,
25 “Thus the Lord has done for me in the days in which he has concerned himself with me, to take away my disgrace among people.”
26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth,
27 to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man named Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin was Mary.
28 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.”
29 But she was greatly perplexed at the statement, and was pondering what sort of greeting this might be.