24 and after those days, his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid  herself five months, saying --
         
                                
                        25 `Thus hath the Lord done to me, in days in which He looked  upon [me], to take away my reproach among men.`
         
                                
                        26 And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by  God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which [is] Nazareth,
         
                                
                        27 to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name [is] Joseph, of  the house of David, and the name of the virgin [is] Mary.
         
                                
                        28 And the messenger having come in unto her, said, `Hail,  favoured one, the Lord [is] with thee; blessed [art] thou  among women;`
         
                                
                        29 and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was  reasoning of what kind this salutation may be.
         
                                
                        30 And the messenger said to her, `Fear not, Mary, for thou  hast found favour with God;