Today’s gospel is unique.
Unique in the sense that you only find this particular story in Luke.
It does not appear in the other synoptic gospels, nor does it appear in John.
And so you ask, well, why would Luke put this story in?
What was he aiming at? Well, many scholars would tell us that the best way to understand the Gospel of Luke is to look at the Magnificat, the prayer of Mary when she goes to visit her cousin, Elizabeth. And in that prayer, as Mary offers praise to God for the blessings that she has received, he makes part of the prayer, an understanding of what God is in the process of doing.
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