1:21 - The crowd, waiting for Zacharias, wondered why he was taking so long inside the temple.
1:22 - He was silent when he came out of the temple, and they figured that he must have seen a vision inside, because without speaking, he gestured to them to come closer.
1:23 - Eventually, as his turn at the temple was over, he went back home.
1:24 - And when he was done, His wife Elizabeth was pregnant and for five months she hid, saying
1:25 - In this manner, the Lord dealt with me in the days when he watched me, to remove my disgrace among humanity.
1:26 - Six months later, God sent Gabriel to Nazareth, in Galilee.
1:27 - The virgin Mary was married to a man named Joseph who was from the house of David.
1:28 - The angel appeared to her and said, Listen you are very special and the Lord is with you in spirit: You are a special woman.
1:29 - When she saw him, she was worried by what he said, and she tried to figure out how she should take his greeting.
1:30 - The Angel with golden hair met eyes with the frightened woman named Mary, and then she started to whisper, You need not to worry any longer, dear girl.. Her voice then became louder as she began to exclaim the holy words, For you are now under the protection of God’s loving and watchful gaze!.
