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Mary, the mother of Jesus
Follow Mary from Gabriel's visit in Nazareth to the upper room in Jerusalem: a question, a song, a warning, a lost boy, a wedding, a cross and a prayer meeting.
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Opening stop: How shall this be?, Luke 1:34
Zechariah also questioned the angel, asking how he could know (Luke 1:18), and was left unable to speak. Mary asks how it will happen, and she is given an answer. Overshadow is the word Luke uses again when a cloud comes over Jesus and three disciples on the mountain (Luke 9:34). Luke calls Elizabeth her cousin and says no more about the tie. Elizabeth was of the daughters of Aaron (Luke 1:5), so Mary had kin in a priestly family.
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
King James Version
The book opens with an address to Theophilus: many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of things most surely believed, delivered by eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, and the writer says it seemed good to him also to write in order, that Theophilus might know the certainty of what he has been taught. The account then names Zacharias, a priest of the course of Abia, and his wife Elisabeth, both called righteous and without child. While Zacharias burns incense, an angel promises a son to be called John. Zacharias asks how he shall know it, the angel names himself Gabriel, and Zacharias is left unable to speak. Elisabeth conceives and hides herself five months. In the sixth month Gabriel is sent to Mary in Nazareth with word of a son to be called JESUS; Mary asks how this shall be and then answers, Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Mary travels to the hill country, the babe leaps in Elisabeth's womb, Elisabeth blesses her, and Mary says, My soul doth magnify the Lord. Elisabeth bears a son, his mother says he shall be called John, Zacharias writes the name and speaks again, and he prophesies over the child. The chapter ends with the child in the deserts.
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This journey has 9 stops. The opening stop is free. Premium opens the rest of the guided path, and every Scripture chapter stays free to read.