“For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.”
Luke 1:48
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Connection with Leah, the unloved wife
Centuries before Mary sang this about the child she carried, Leah learned the same thing in her tent. She was the wife Jacob did not love, and the LORD looked with favour on her.
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The Greek Genesis that Luke's first readers knew renders Leah's words at Asher's birth, the women will call me blessed (Genesis 30:13), with makarizo (G3106). Mary uses the same verb in the same form here. Readers heard Leah in Mary's song, widened to every generation, with the reason Leah left out placed first: God looked with favor on His servant.
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