Soon after that, Mary got ready, and she went south quickly to a town in the hilly part of the country called Judea.
Mary said, “All right, I will do whatever God wants. I want everything to happen just like you said.” Then Gabriel left her.
Zekariah and Elizabeth lived in that town. Mary went to their house, and she went in and said to Elizabeth, “Hello cousin.”
The people there never saw God do things like that before. They were really surprised. They told other people about everything that happened, and soon a lot of people in the hilly part of Judea country were talking about it.