34. And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?”
35. And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the one to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
36. And behold, your relative Elizabeth—she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren.
37. For nothing will be impossible with God.”
38. So Mary said, “Behold, the Lord’s female slave! May it happen to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
39. Now in those days Mary set out and traveled with haste into the hill country, to a town of Judah,
40. and entered into the house of Zechariah, and greeted Elizabeth.
41. And it happened that when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby in her womb leaped and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
42. And she cried out with a loud shout and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
43. And why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44. For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy!
45. And blessed is she who believed that there will be a fulfillment to what was spoken to her from the Lord!”
46. And Mary said, “My soul exalts the Lord,
47. and my spirit has rejoiced greatly in God my Savior,
48. because he has looked upon the humble state of his female slave, for behold, from now on all generations will consider me blessed,