Luke 1:16-25

¹⁶And he shall convert many of the children of Israel to their Lord God;

¹⁷and he shall go before him in the spirit and virtue of Elijah; and he shall turn the hearts of the fathers into the sons, and men out of belief, or that believe not, to the prudence of just men, to make ready a perfect people to the Lord.

¹⁸And Zechariah said to the angel, Whereof shall I know this? for I am old, and my wife hath gone far in her days.

¹⁹And the angel answered, and said to him, For I am Gabriel, that stand nigh before God; and I am sent to thee to speak, and to evangelize or to tell to thee these things.

²⁰And lo! thou shalt be dumb, and thou shalt not be able to speak till into the day, in which these things shall be done; for thou hast not believed to my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.

²¹And the people was abiding Zechariah, and they wondered, that he tarried in the temple.

²²And he went out, and might not speak to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he beckoned to them, and dwelled still dumb.

²³And it was done, when the days of his office were fulfilled, he went into his house.

²⁴And after these days Elisabeth, his wife, conceived, and hid her five months, and said,

²⁵For so the Lord did to me in the days, in which he beheld, to take away my reproof or my shame among men.