If Mary is the first Christian disciple, the first person to receive God’s grace offered in Jesus and to follow him in response, then Elizabeth is the first Christian witness, the first person to see and believe what God was doing through Jesus and to tell others in response.
That’s no small role to play, in a gospel that starts with its author compiling…
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