The visit of Mary to Elizabeth is recorded in Luke's Gospel. The Archangel Gabriel when he tells Mary she will give birth to Jesus, tells her as a proof that her Aunt Elizabeth who was barren is with child. Mary then travels to visit Elizabeth. On her arrival, the unborn children acknowledge their relationship. John the Baptist, leaps in his mother’s womb, demonstrating the truth of what Gabriel had said to Zechariah, that he would be filled with the Holy Spirit, and therefore a prophet, from his mother’s womb (Luke 1:15,17). Elizabeth knows instantly that Mary is also pregnant and that her child is to be the Messiah. There is a mutual recognition of these births as the fulfilment of God’s promises to Israel as seen in the words of Elizabeth to Mary and in Mary’s song, Magnificat.