Luke 1:55–63
55as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever.”↗
56Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.↗
57Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.↗
58Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.↗
59On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.↗
60His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”↗
61They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”↗
62They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.↗
63He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.” They all marveled.↗
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