³¹ You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.^{(A) 32} He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.^(B) The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,^{(C) 33} and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom^(D) will never end.”^(E)

³⁴ “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

³⁵ The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you,^(F) and the power of the Most High^(G) will overshadow you. So the holy one^(H) to be born will be called^[a] the Son of God.^(I)

²³ “From this man’s descendants^(A) God has brought to Israel the Savior^(B) Jesus,^(C) as he promised.^{(D) 24} Before the coming of Jesus, John preached repentance and baptism to all the people of Israel.^{(E) 25} As John was completing his work,^(F) he said: ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not the one you are looking for.^(G) But there is one coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’^(H)

²⁶ “Fellow children of Abraham^(I) and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation^(J) has been sent. ²⁷ The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus,^(K) yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets^(L) that are read every Sabbath. ²⁸ Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.^{(M) 29} When they had carried out all that was written about him,^(N) they took him down from the cross^(O) and laid him in a tomb.^{(P) 30} But God raised him from the dead,^{(Q) 31} and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem.^(R) They are now his witnesses^(S) to our people.

³² “We tell you the good news:^(T) What God promised our ancestors^{(U) 33} he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus.^(V) As it is written in the second Psalm:

³⁴ God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said,

³⁵ So it is also stated elsewhere:

³⁶ “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep;^(Z) he was buried with his ancestors^(AA) and his body decayed. ³⁷ But the one whom God raised from the dead^(AB) did not see decay.

³⁸ “Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.^{(AC) 39} Through him everyone who believes^(AD) is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.^(AE)

² the gospel he promised beforehand^(A) through his prophets^(B) in the Holy Scriptures^{(C) 3} regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life^[a](D) was a descendant of David,^{(E) 4} and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power^[b](F) by his resurrection from the dead:^(G) Jesus Christ our Lord.^(H)