Luke 1:38-41

The Voice

Mary (deciding in her heart): ³⁸Here I am, the Lord’s humble servant. As you have said, let it be done to me.

Luke is very interested in the ways that disadvantaged people of his day respond to God. Already there is a fascinating interplay between Zacharias’s response to God and Mary’s.

And the heavenly messenger was gone. ³⁹Mary immediately got up and hurried to the hill country, in the province of Judah, ^40-41where her cousins Zacharias and Elizabeth lived. When Mary entered their home and greeted Elizabeth, who felt her baby leap in her womb, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

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