The Angel Gabriel visits Mary. One day an angel called Gabriel went to visit Mary to tell her some important news. Angel Gabriel told Mary that she was going to have a very special baby called Jesus.

The Christmas story begins when the angel Gabriel visits Mary — an unmarried Jewish teenager at her home in Nazareth, Israel — saying, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is ...

And Gabriel repeats almost verbatim to Mary what the Guest tells Abraham: “nothing is impossible with God” (Genesis 18:14. For the whole episode, see 18:1-15). Luke’s Gospel reckons with the ...

Hearing that Elizabeth was six months pregnant with a son, Mary then went to the Hill Country to visit her cousin and share her good news with her. You can read it in Luke 1:39-45.