Luke 1:35 (YLT)

Passage

And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

Nearby Context

Luke 1:33 and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages; and of his reign there shall be no end.'

Luke 1:34 And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?'

Luke 1:35 And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

Luke 1:36 and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

Luke 1:37 because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "called", "Spirit", "messenger", "answering", "said", "holy", "shall", and "come". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "called" and "Spirit", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 34's "And Mary said unto the messenger How..." into verse 36's "and lo Elisabeth thy kinswoman she also...", so "called" and "Spirit" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "called" and "Spirit" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.