Romans 1:1-6

“The message that Paul is preaching is the very same message that the prophets preached.”

Luke 2:1-20

“The apparently most important and powerful person in the known world has again just been moved like a pawn to make sure that the apparently least important little child in the world would be born in a place that would ultimately prove him to be the one who was actually going to accomplish all the things for which Augustus was vainly praised.”

Luke 1:26-38

“Mary was a young woman who was very familiar with the Scriptures. Being very familiar with the Scriptures and the language of Scriptures, it may be that she remembered hearing these very words before. And that was because this exact language reflects the words that the angel of the Lord used in greeting Gideon in the Old Testament.”