Luke 1:38

38 So Mary said, "Behold, the Lord's female slave! May it happen to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.

Luke 1:38 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 1:38

And Mary said, behold the handmaid of the Lord,
&c.] In which words she expresses her obedience of faith; she owns herself to be the handmaid of the Lord, and desires to obey him, and be submissive to him as such; and tacitly acknowledges her meanness, and great unworthiness:

be it unto me according to thy word;
she assented to what the angel said should be unto her; she earnestly desired it might be, and firmly believed it would be; she set her "Amen" to the angel's message:

and the angel departed from her;
to the heavenly regions from whence he came; to his great Lord and master, that sent him; having dispatched the business he came about, and which he was accountable to him for.

Luke 1:38 In-Context

36 And behold, your relative Elizabeth--she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren.

37 For {nothing will be impossible with God}."

38 So Mary said, "Behold, the Lord's female slave! May it happen to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.

39 Now in those days Mary set out [and] traveled with haste into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

40 and entered into the house of Zechariah, and greeted Elizabeth.