<p>1:53 <i>The hungry He has filled with good things and the rich He has sent away empty</i>- See on :38 for the allusions to Hannah's song. Not only was the Lord Himself influenced by His mother. Paul and Peter allude to Mary and her words in their writings. The hymn to Jesus which Paul wrote in Phil. 2 is full of themes taken from Mary&rsquo;s song- the same themes of God&rsquo;s manifestation in His Son, humiliation and exaltation, occur there. There are several connections between the accounts of the early preaching of the Gospel in Acts, and Mary&rsquo;s song of praise. Her words came to influence the brethren who stood up there and preached. Perhaps Mary, who was meeting with them (Acts 1:14), sung the words to them and they all memorized it. Raymond Brown claims there are 18 words or items shared by the preaching of Peter (Acts 3:12-26) and the Magnificat Mary&rsquo;s song of praise (<i>The Birth Of The Messiah</i>, New York: Doubleday, 1993 p. 354). Mary had quoted Ps. 107:9 about how she had been filled with good things; but Zacharias quoted the next verse, Ps. 107:10, shortly afterwards (Lk. 1:79). Surely Mary had gotten him thinking in the same paths as she did. And she should likewise influence us.</p><p>Mary felt that through her being granted the honour of bearing Jesus, the hungry had been filled. The Lord in Lk. 6:21 alludes to all this. He speaks of how blessed =Mary are the hungry who will be filled, using the same three words as in Lk. 1- <i>blessed </i>was Mary, the <i>hungry</i>, who was <i>filled </i>in her stomach.&nbsp; He states that there is a blessedness upon all of us who believe (Jn. 20:29)- just as His mother was proclaimed blessed for her belief (Lk. 1:45). &nbsp;Mary had felt that God had &ldquo;Filled the hungry i.e. their stomach, cp. the womb of Mary with the good thing Gk.&rdquo;- Jesus (Lk. 1:53). He calls Himself this good thing, using the very same Greek word in Mt. 20:15: &quot;I am the good one&quot;; Jn. 1:46; 7:12 where the &quot;good thing&quot; is Messiah. Her perception of Him became His. And so with us; if we perceive our children as future brethren, so, hopefully and prayerfully, they will be. Jesus could have sinned; He could have failed. But Mary right from His babyhood believed that He wouldn&rsquo;t. She believed in Him and in His successful completion of His destiny from when she first conceived Him. And surely this is a pattern for Christian mothers too.</p>