Jesus

He will be great, he will be called Son of Ha`Elyon. ADONAI, God, will give him the throne of his forefather David;

and he will rule the House of Ya`akov forever -- there will be no end to his Kingdom."

The angel answered her, "The Ruach HaKodesh will come over you, the power of Ha`Elyon will cover you. Therefore the holy child born to you will be called the Son of God.

Miryam said, "I am the servant of ADONAI; may it happen to me as you have said." Then the angel left her.

"But who am I, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Indeed you are blessed, because you have trusted that the promise ADONAI has made to you will be fulfilled."

and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior,

"He has performed mighty deeds with his arm, routed the secretly proud,

"He has taken the part of his servant Isra'el, mindful of the mercy

Her neighbors and relatives heard how good ADONAI had been to her, and they rejoiced with her.

by raising up for us a mighty Deliverer who is a descendant of his servant David.

the oath he swore before Avraham avinu

to grant us that we, freed from our enemies, would serve him without fear,

in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in cloth and laid him down in a feeding trough, because there was no space for them in the living-quarters.

This very day, in the town of David, there was born for you a Deliverer who is the Messiah, the Lord.

Hurrying off, they came and found Miryam and Yosef, and the baby lying in the feeding trough.

Upon seeing this, they made known what they had been told about this child;

On the eighth day, when it was time for his b'rit-milah, he was given the name Yeshua, which is what the angel had called him before his conception.

When the time came for their purification according to the Torah of Moshe, they took him up to Yerushalayim to present him to ADONAI

(as it is written in the Torah of ADONAI, "Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to ADONAI")

It had been revealed to him by the Ruach HaKodesh that he would not die before he had seen the Messiah of ADONAI.

Prompted by the Spirit, he went into the Temple courts; and when the parents brought in the child Yeshua to do for him what the Torah required,

Shim`on took him in his arms, made a b'rakhah to God, and said,

"Now, ADONAI, according to your word, your servant is at peace as you let him go;