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>> elizabeth. elizabeth. >> mary? >> elizabeth tells mary how despite being too old to conceive, she really is now 6 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 womb. 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. >> two thousand years on, the possibility that joh...

>> elizabeth. elizabeth. >> mary? >> elizabeth tells mary how despite being too old to conceive, she really is now 6 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 womb. 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. >> two thousand years on, the possibility that joh...

And serve only him." >> and the third temptation, he takes him to the pinnacle, the highest point, and he tells jesus to fling himself off so that he can be rescued by angels. >> "it is said do not put the lord your god to the test." >> we know that jesus doesn't fold. if it had been me, you'd have lost me at turning stones into bread. just imagine if you could get past this, the temptation of hunger when you haven't eaten for days. if he could make it through that trial, all the other ones were probably a piece of cake.

A witness of humility and of discipleship. >> jesus will never meet john again, but following his baptism, he takes a page from john's book and heads into the wilderness on his own journey of self-discovery. >> in the book of the prophet isaiah, it says, "in the wilderness, prepare the way of the lord." so they thought of that desert as wilderness and went out there to prepare for the coming of the lord. >> for 40 days and nights, he goes without food. he has been touched by god. now, he must face the devil. >> according to the gospel of luke, the devil takes jesus' side and tempts him three d...