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15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’
80 The child grew and became strong in spirit,
and he was in the wilderness until the day he appeared publicly to Israel.
78 By the tender mercy of our God,
the dawn from on high will break upon us,
76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people
by the forgiveness of their sins.
72 Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors,
and has remembered his holy covenant,
67 Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke this prophecy:
59 On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father.
56 And Mary remained with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned to her home.
46And Mary said,
‘My soul magnifies the Lord,
47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour,
48 for he has looked with favour on the lowliness of his servant.
39In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
In A Spacious Place 