Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of your serving girl. You have loosed my bonds.
Confirm to your servant your promise, which is for those who fear you.
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country,
for he has looked with favor on the lowly state of his servant. Surely from now on all generations will call me blessed,
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by an enslaved woman and the other by a free woman.