The Gospel of Luke
Chapter 1
Verses 26-38
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 unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with
God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and
shalt call his name Jesus.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord
God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there
shall be no end.
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon
thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that
holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old
age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to
thy word. And the angel departed from her.
Source: Project Gutenberg, URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/. Site last accessed on July 23, 2006.
Editor's Note.
There are a large number of hymns and carols on this website that celebrate the Annunciation. See, for example,
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel (Richard R. Chope, 1894, source unknown)
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Nowel, This Is The Salutation (Richard R. Terry, ca. 1923, from MS. Eng. poet. e. 1)
Nowell, Nowell (Thomas Wright, Song #65, 1847, from MS. Eng. poet. e. 1)
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell (Thomas Wright, Song #56a, 1847, from MS. Eng. poet. e. 1)
Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell (Edith Rickert, 1914, from the Selden MS)
The Salutation Carol (Shaw and Dearmer, 1913, from the Selden MS)
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Tidings True, Come Glad And New (Edmund Sedding, from MS. Eng. poet. e. 1, 1863)
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Tidinges, Tidinges That Be True (Chambers and Sidgwick, 1907 from the Landsdowne MS 379)
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Tidings True Be Come Anew (Weston, 1911, from the Balliol MS 354 / Richard Hill Commonplace Book)
Richard L. Greene gives us 24 Carols of the Annunciation in his The Early English Carols (Oxford, 1935), #234-#257, pp. 166-184.
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