⁴¹ When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.^{(A) 42} In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women,^(B) and blessed is the child you will bear! ⁴³ But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord^(C) should come to me? ⁴⁴ As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

¹⁵ But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb^(A) and called me^(B) by his grace, was pleased