Luke 1:31 - Plain English Version

³¹ Listen. You will soon have a baby boy, and you will call him Jesus.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ And listen! You will become pregnant and will give birth to a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

Common English Bible

³¹ Look! You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and you shall bear a son, and you shall call his name: JESUS.

Luke 1:31 Cross References

Matthew 1:21

She will have a baby boy, and you will name him Jesus. (That name Jesus means God saves.) You see, he will save his people, so that God will not punish them for the bad things they do.”

Matthew 1:23

“There will be a young woman that never slept with a man, like a woman does with her husband, but she will have a baby boy. That boy will have a special name, Immanuel. That name means God is with us.”

Matthew 1:25

But he did not sleep with her, like a man does with his wife, until after her son was born. And he named the baby Jesus.

Luke 1:13

But the angel told him, “Don’t be frightened, Zekariah. God has heard what you have been asking him, and he will give you what you want. Your wife, Elizabeth, will have a baby boy, and you will name him John.

Luke 1:27

He went there to a young girl that was not married. Her name was Mary. Before that time, Mary didn’t ever sleep with any man, like a woman does with her husband. She was promised to a man that was called Joseph. He belonged to the family of David, the man that was the big boss a long time ago.

Luke 2:21

You know, the law of Moses said that they had to do a young man operation on all baby boys as soon as they were 8 days old. So Mary’s baby had that operation, and they gave him his name, Jesus, at that time. That’s the name that God’s angel messenger told Mary to call him, before she started to carry that baby inside her.

Galatians 4:4

And just like that little kid, we had to wait for the right time to come. Then, when the right time came, God sent his own son from heaven to the earth. He was born from a normal woman into the Jewish nation, and he did what the Jewish law said.