THE SYLVANUS LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT^©

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^1-2Forasmuch as many undertook to compile a narrative about the acts having been accomplished among us, just as they who, having come to be eyewitnesses and servants of the enunciation from the beginning, handed over to us, ^3-4 it seemed {good} also to me, having pursued all things from above thoroughly, to write to you sequentially, most excellent Theophile, that you would recognise the sureness of the enunciations about which you have been informed.

⁵In the days of Herodes (the*) King of Yehudah, there came to be some priest named Zakar'yah out of shift of Ab'yah and (the*) woman of him was out of the daughters of Aharon and the name of her was Eli'shabat. ^6-7Moreover, they both were being righteous in the sight of the God, going about their lives blamelessly in all the commandments and righteous judgements of the master, and there was not being for them a child forasmuch as the Eli'shabat was being barren and both were being having gotten on in the years of them.

⁸It came to be moreover, in his performing sacred duties in the proceeding of the shift of him before the God ⁹that, according to the custom of the priesthood, he got by lot, having entered into the temple of the Master, to offer incense, ¹⁰and all the multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense. ¹¹Moreover, Master's messenger was made visible to him, having stood out of the right side of the altar of incense, ¹²so, catching the sight Zakar'yah was agitated and fear fell upon him. ¹³The messenger moreover said to him: 'Be not fearing Zakar'yah , because your supplication was given attention, and your woman Eli'shabat will give birth to a son to you, and you will call his name Yeho'hanan, ^14-15and there shall be joy for you, and jubilation, and many will be rejoiced over his birth for he shall be great in the sight of the master, and wine and alcohol, no, he not should drink, and of holy spirit he will be filled still out of his mother's womb. ¹⁶And many of the sons of Yishra'el he will turn back over to Master, their God, ¹⁷and him, he will go ahead in sight of Him in El'yah's spirit and power, to turn back fathers' hearts over to children, and incredulous ones in thoughtfulness of righteous ones, to make ready for Master people having been equipped." ¹⁸And Zakar'yah said toward the messenger: "down to what will I get to know that? For I am being old and the woman of me she having gotten on in the years of her." ¹⁹And answering, the messenger said to him: "I am Gabri'el the one having stood by in sight of God, and I was commissioned to speak to you, and to declare these good messages to you. ²⁰And lo and behold! You shall be mute and not able to speak until which day of these things should come because of which, these enunciations of me, you believed not, which will be fulfilled in the due time of them."

²¹And the people were anticipating Zakar'yah and they were wondering at the lingering of him in the temple, ²²on coming out moreover, he was not able to speak to them and they recognised that he had seen a vision in the temple and he was gesturing to them and he was continuing mute. ²³And it came to be, as were being fulfilled the days of the ministry of him, he went away to the house of him. ²⁴Moreover, after these days, Eli'shabat the woman of him conceived and she was hiding herself  five months saying ²⁵"Thus to me have designed Master in days {in} which he regarded to take away [the] discredit of me among humans".

²⁶Moreover in the sixth month, the messenger Gabri'el was commissioned [by / from] God into a city of Galilaia, which name is Nazaret, ²⁷toward a virgin having been engaged to a man whose name was Yoseph, out of the house of David; and the name of the virgin was Mariam. ²⁸And entering, toward her, (the messenger*)  said: "Rejoice, she that has been Graced, Master is with you (you blessed among women*)". ²⁹Moreover, (catching the sight,*) she was startled over [the / his] enunciation, and she was pondering what sort of greeting this could be. ³⁰And the messenger said to her: "be not you fearing Mariam, for you found grace beside God ³¹and lo and behold! you will conceive in womb, and you will give birth to a son, and you will call his name Jesus. ³²This one shall be great, and Son of the Most High he will be called, and Master God will give him the throne of David his father, ³³and he will reign over the house of Jacob into eternity, and of his kingship, there shall be no end". ³⁴Moreover Mariam said to the messenger: "How shall that be, since I am no knowing a man?" ³⁵So, answering, the messenger said to her: 'Holy Spirit will come upon you, and power of the Most-High will overshadow you, hence The one born holy (out of you*) will be called Son of God. ³⁶And lo-and-behold! Elishabat the kinswoman of you: she has conceived a son in the old age of her, and this month is to her the sixth, the being called barren, ³⁷because all utterance with God will not be impracticable.' ³⁸So Mariam said: 'Lo-and-behold! The servant girl of Master. May it come to be to me down to the utterance of you'. And The Messenger went away from her.

³⁹Arising then in these days, Mariam went her way into the mountainous region with haste, into a city of Y'hudah, ⁴⁰and she entered into the house of Z'khar'yah, and she greeted Eli'shabbat. ⁴¹And it came to be, as Eli'shabbat heard the greeting of Mariam, the baby in the womb of her leaped, and Eli'shabbat was filled of holy spirit, ⁴²and she exclaimed a great clamour, and she said: 'you having been blessed among women, and the fruit of womb of you having been blessed!! ⁴³And whence this at me from that the mother of the Sovereign of me would come toward me? ⁴⁴For lo-and-behold! As the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in jubilation in my womb. ⁴⁵And blissful the one having believed, because there shall be an accomplishment of what has been spoken to her by Master.'

⁴⁶And Mariam said: "the soul of me magnifies the Master, ⁴⁷and the spirit of me jubilates over the God the Saviour of me ⁴⁸because He looked upon the lowliness of the servant girl of him, for lo and behold! from now on, all generations will count me blissful ⁴⁹because the powerful One designed for me great things and holy is the name of Him, ⁵⁰and the mercy of Him is to generations [to generations / generations'] to those fearing him.

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