RSVP – repondez s’il vous plais // will you answer please
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s
pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth,
a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David.
The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
LUKE 1: 26-28 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)
Mary responded, “I am the Lord’s servant.
May everything you have said about me come true”
and the angel left her.
LUKE 1: 38 New Living Translation (NLT)
As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
And she will have a son, and you are to name
him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
MATTHEW 1:20-21 (NLT)
When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife.
MATTHEW 1:24 (NLT)
Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them,
and the radiance of the Lord’s glory surrounded them.
They were terrified,
LUKE 2:9 (NLT)
When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, “Let’s go to Bethlehem!
Let’s see this thing that has happened,
which the Lord has told us about.”
LUKE 2:15 (NLT)
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)