Leap of Faith
Luke 1:41
The baby leapt in her womb, it is very probable that she had been several weeks quick (for she was six months gone), and that she had often felt the child stir but this was a more than ordinary motion of the child, which alarmed her to expect something very extraordinary, it is the same word that is used in Genesis 25:22 for the struggling of Jacob and Esau in Rebecca’s womb, and the mountains skipping, Psalm 114:4. The babe leaped as it were to give a signal to his mother that he was now at hand whose forerunner he was to be, about six months in ministry, as he was in being or, it was the effect of some strong impression made upon the mother. Now began to be fulfilled what the angel said to his father (Luke 1:15), that he should be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his moth...
