Luke 1:46-80 ▼

46 And Mary sayde. My soule magnifieth the Lorde.

47 And my sprete reioyseth in god my savioure

48 For he hath loked on the povre degre of his honde mayde. Beholde now from hence forth shall all generacions call me blessed.

49 For he that is myghty hath done to me greate thinges and holye is his name.

50 And his mercy is on them that feare him thorow oute all generacions.

51 He sheweth strength with his arme he scattereth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hertes.

52 He putteth doune the myghty from their seates and exalteth them of lowe degre.

53 He filleth the hongry with good thinges: and sendeth awaye the ryche emptye.

54 He remenbreth mercy: and helpeth his servaunt Israel.

55 Even as he promised to oure fathers Abraham and to his seede for ever.

56 And mary aboode with hyr aboute a .iii. monethes and retourned agayne to hyr awne housse.

57 Elizabethes tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered and she brought forth a sonne.

58 And her neghboures and her cosins hearde tell how the lorde had shewed great mercy vpon her and they reioysed with her.

59 And it fortuned ye eyght daye: they cam to circumcise the chylde: and called his name zacharias after the name of his father.

60 How be it his mother answered and sayd: not so but he shalbe called Ihon.

61 And they sayd vnto hyr: Ther is none of thy kynne that is named wt this name.

62 And they made signes to his father how he wolde have him called.

63 And he axed for wrytynge tables and wroote saying: his name is Iohn. And they marvelled all.

64 And his mouthe was opened immediatly and his tonge also and he spake lawdynge God.

65 And feare came on all the that dwelt nye vnto them. And all these sayinges were noysed abroade throughout all ye hyll coutre of Iurie

66 and all they yt herde the layde them vp in their hertes saying: What maner chylde shall this be? And the honde of ye lorde was with him.

67 And his father zacharias was filled with the holy goost and prophisyed sayinge:

68 Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel for he hath visited and redemed his people.

69 And hath reysed vp an horne of salvacion vnto vs in the housse of his servaunt David.

70 Even as he promised by ye mouth of his holy prophetes which were sens ye worlde began

71 That we shuld be saved from oure enemies and from the hondis of all that hate vs:

72 To fulfill the mercy promised to oure fathers and to remember his holy covenaunt.

73 And to performe the oothe which he sware to oure father Adraham

74 for to geve vs. That we delyvered oute of ye hondes of oure enemyes myght serve him with oute feare

75 all the dayes of oure lyfe in suche holynes and ryghtewesnes that are accept before him.

76 And thou chylde shalt be called the Prophet of the hyest: for thou shalt goo before the face of the lorde to prepare his wayes:

77 And to geve knowlege of salvacion vnto his people for the remission of synnes:

78 Through the tender mercy of oure God wherby the daye springe from an hye hath visited vs.

79 To geve light to the that sate in darcknes and in shadowe of deth and to gyde oure fete into the waye of peace.

80 And the chylde grew and wexed stronge in sprete and was in wyldernes tyll the daye cam when he shuld shewe him sylfe vnto the Israhelites.