Luke
Faithfulness · Patience · Recognition · Joy
“Blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.”
— Luke 1:45
The mother of John the Baptist, who waited faithfully through years of barrenness and was the first to recognize the unborn Messiah when Mary came to visit.
Her Story
Elizabeth and her husband Zechariah were both righteous before God, walking in all His commandments. But they had no children, and Elizabeth was now well beyond childbearing years. When the angel Gabriel told Zechariah that Elizabeth would bear a son who would prepare the way for the Messiah, Zechariah doubted and was struck mute. But Elizabeth believed. When her young cousin Mary — newly pregnant with Jesus — came to visit, Elizabeth felt her baby leap in her womb and was filled with the Holy Spirit. She cried out, 'Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb!' Elizabeth was the first human voice to proclaim the coming of the Christ child. Her son, John the Baptist, would become the prophet who prepared the way for Jesus.
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