amazing secret. elizabeth tells mary how, despite being too old to conceive, she really is now six months pregnant. as soon as i heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. when mary goes to elizabeth and they re both pregnant, john the baptist leaps for joy in elizabeth s woman, we can imagine that there s a rapport between these women. there is an attempt throughout the gospels to portray john as the forerunner who prepares the way for the coming of the lord, the lord being jesus himself. 2,000 years on, the