Luke 1:35
And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.
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In Context
34And Mary said to the angel, How may this be, because I have had no knowledge of a man?
Cross References
Job 14:4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Job 25:4How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Psalms 51:5\51:3\For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
Matthew 1:20But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 14:33And those who were in the boat gave him worship, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.
Matthew 27:54Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.
Matthew Henry on Luke 1:27-39
The Birth of Christ Foretold. 26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. 28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 30 And the angel said… Read the whole commentary →