Luke 1:39-45

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Mary Visits Elizabeth

³⁹In those days Mary arose and went with haste into ^(A)the hill country, to a town in Judah, ⁴⁰and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. ⁴¹And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth ^(B)was filled with the Holy Spirit, ⁴²and she exclaimed with a loud cry, ^(C)“Blessed are you among women, and ^(D)blessed is ^(E)the fruit of your womb! ⁴³And why is this granted to me that the mother of ^(F)my Lord should come to me? ⁴⁴For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. ⁴⁵And ^(G)blessed is she who believed that there would be^[a] a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

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Luke 1:45 Or believed, for there will be

Luke 1:57-66

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The Birth of John the Baptist

⁵⁷Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. ⁵⁸And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord ^(A)had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. ⁵⁹And ^(B)on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father, ⁶⁰but his mother answered, “No; ^(C)he shall be called John.” ⁶¹And they said to her, “None of your relatives is called by this name.” ⁶²And ^(D)they made signs to his father, inquiring what he wanted him to be called. ⁶³And he asked for ^(E)a writing tablet and wrote, ^(F)“His name is John.” And they all wondered. ⁶⁴^(G)And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue ^(H)loosed, and he spoke, ^(I)blessing God. ⁶⁵And ^(J)fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all ^(K)the hill country of Judea, ⁶⁶and all who heard them ^(L)laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For ^(M)the hand of the Lord was with him.