Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 1:26-27

"Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin`s name was Mary." — Luke 1:26-27 (ASV)

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.

It was by the temptation of an evil angel that man fell, and Paradise was lost. It was, therefore, most appropriate that good angels should be sent to announce the coming of the Restorer, through whom Paradise is regained: Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth.

Christ's coming to earth must be announced in the lowliest of cities, and he must be born in the small Judean town of Bethlehem; yet it was also decreed that he must die at Jerusalem—the metropolitan city.

Mark the simplicity, and yet the sublimity, of the arrangement by which the meek and lowly Saviour was to be born in our nature. The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a virgin whose name was Mary.