Luke 1:14

1:14 Joy and gladness will come ¹  to you, and many will rejoice at ²  his birth, ³ 

Luke 1:25

1:25 “This is what ⁴  the Lord has done for me at the time ⁵  when he has been gracious to me, ⁶  to take away my disgrace ⁷  among people.” ⁸ 

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¹ tn Grk “This will be joy and gladness.”

² tn Or “because of.”

³ tn “At his birth” is more precise as the grammatical subject (1:58), though “at his coming” is a possible force, since it is his mission, as the following verses note, that will really bring joy.

⁴ tn Grk “Thus.”

⁵ tn Grk “in the days.”

⁶ tn Grk “has looked on me” (an idiom for taking favorable notice of someone).

⁷ sn Barrenness was often seen as a reproach or disgrace (Lev 20:20-21; Jer 22:30), but now at her late age (the exact age is never given in Luke’s account), God had miraculously removed it (see also Luke 1:7).

⁸ tn Grk “among men”; but the context clearly indicates a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") here.