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124 Elizabeth shal beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt cal his name John: and thou shalt have ″ joy and exultation, and many shal rejoyce in his nativitie. For he shal be great before our Lord; and wine and sider he shal not drinke; and he shal be replenished with the Holy Ghost even from his mothers womb. And he shal * convert many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. And he shal goe before him * in the spirit and vertue of Elias, that he may convert the harts of the Fathers unto the children, and the incredulous to the wisedom of the just, to prepare unto the Lord a perfect People.✠ And Zacharie said to the Angel: Whereby shal I know this? for I am old; and my wife is wel striken in her dayes. And the Angel answering said to him: I am Gabriel that assist before God; and am sent to speake to thee, and to Evangelize these things to thee. And behold, thou shalt be dumme, and shalt not be able to speake until the day wherein these things shal be done; for-because thou hast not beleeved my wordes, which shal be fulfilled in their time. And the People was expecting Zacharie; and they marveled that he made tariance in the Temple. And comming forth he could not speake to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the Temple. And he made signes to them, and remained dumme. And it came to passe, after the dayes of his office were expired, ″ he departed into his house. And after these dayes Elizabeth his wife conceaved; and hid herself five months, saying: For thus hath our Lord done to me in the dayes wherein he had respect to take away my reproch among men.

b And in the sixt month, the Angel Gabriel was sent of God into a citie of Galilee, called Nazareth,  * to a Virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the Virgins name was. And the Angel being entred in, said unto her: ″ ″ ful of grace, our Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. Who having heard, was troubled at his saying, and thought what manner of salutation this should be. And the Angel said to her: Feare not, for thou hast found grace with God. * Behold thou shalt conceave in thy womb, and shalt beare a Sonne; and thou shalt cal his name. He shal be great, and shal be called the Sonne of the most High, and our Lord God shal give him the seat of David his Father: * and he shal reigne in the house of Jacob for ever, and of his Kingdom there shal be no end. And said to the Angel: How shal this be done, ″ because I know not man? And the Angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shal come upon thee, and the power of the most High shal overshadow thee. And therfore also that which of thee shal be borne Holy, shal be called the Sonne of God. And behold ″ Elizabeth thy cosin, she also hath conceaved a Sonne in her old age; and this month, is the sixt to her that is called barren; because there shal not be impossible with God any word. And said,  the handmaid of our Lord, be it done to me according to thy word.✠ And the Angel departed from her.

c And rising up in those dayes, went unto the hil countrie with speed into a citie of Juda. And she entred into the house of Rh