...chosen to be the Mother of God. Mary raises the difficulty of her virginity and the angel tells her that "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence the holy offspring to be born will be called Son of God" (1:35). As soon as Mary understands...

...attention to the terms in which the mystery of the new conception and birth is deliberately stated: The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. In the so-calledparallelismus membrorum two images of the ineffable mystery from different strands...

...will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus ... he will reign.... The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of...overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God..." and citing Genesis 18:14 the Angel concludes: "For with God nothing...

...name" (Matt. 6:9 KJV). The holiness of the incarnate Son was announced to Mary by the angel Gabriel: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power...be holy; he will be called Son of God" (Luke 1:35 NRSV). Some of Jesus' contemporaries merely thought of him as the carpenter's son, but the demons,...

...son of God, she asked how this could be since she had never been with a man, and Gabriel answered: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power...be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God" (verse 35). just as previously it brooded over the waters] Al- 7 ludes to the account of creation in...

...conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit." In Luke, the angel forewarns Mary before she is pregnant: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power...born will be holy; he will be called Son of God." Despite their reluctance to bring us into the bedroom, the evangelists do not see God's paternity of...

...conception and birth of Jesus. In the Third Gospel Mary's question to the angel invites the response, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power...the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35). 45 Matthew's setting is different, but he nevertheless relates that Mary...

...tendency to highlight Jesus' prophetic anointment80 — takes care to emphasize the link (Lk 1:35): And the angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come...overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God."81 Thus the gift of the Spirit, which engenders the designation of Jesus...

...there will be no end " And Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I have no husband?" And the angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come...overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived...

...and you shall call his name Jesus." Then in verse 35 the Angel in answer to Mary's question, informs her "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power...overshadow you, therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God." In John's Gospel 20:11 Mary and the mother of Jesus "stood without at...