The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    And the angell answered and sayd vnto her: The holy goost shall come apon the and the power of the hyest shall over shaddowe the. Therfore also the holy thinge which shalbe borne shalbe called the sonne of god.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    And the Angel answered, and said vnto her, The holy Ghost shall come vpon thee, and the power of the most High shall ouershadowe thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall bee borne of thee, shall be called the Sonne of God.

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Cross-references (24)

Passages linked to Luke 1:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
  • John 1:49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
  • Matthew 1:20 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
  • John 1:34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
  • Luke 1:31-32 Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’ He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
  • Romans 1:4 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
  • Hebrews 4:15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
  • Matthew 26:63-64 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”
  • Mark 1:24 saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”
  • Acts 8:36 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
  • Matthew 27:54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
  • Luke 1:27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.
  • Job 25:4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
  • John 20:31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
  • Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  • Psalms 2:7 I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
  • Matthew 14:33 Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”
  • Mark 1:1 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
  • Hebrews 7:26-28 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
  • Job 15:16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Matthew 4:3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
  • Ephesians 2:3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
  • Psalms 51:5 Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Declared and showed to the world, to be the…

Declared and showed to the world, to be the Son of God.

That is, the holy Ghost shall cause thee to conceive by his mighty power.

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That pure thing and void of all spot of uncleanness: for he that was to take away sin, must needs be void of sin.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 35 And the angel answered and said unto her,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Holy Ghost (who is also called here the…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the angel answered and said unto her,.... The…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 35. The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee]…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee - See…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, &c. By…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Holy Ghost--(See on Mat 1:18).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 35. The Holy Ghost—The definite article is not in…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 35. shall overshadow thee] as with the Shechinah and…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (35) The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee.—See Note…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 1:35 The Holy Spirit will come upon you: Jesus’…

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