Luke 1:53-61

⁵³And he gave hungry people good food, and they ate till they were full. But he didn’t give anything to the rich people. They went away with nothing.

⁵⁴He is sorry for his own people, us Israel mob, and he helps us,

⁵⁵just like he promised to our grand-father Abraham, and to our other grand-fathers of long ago. He said he will look after us for ever.”

⁵⁶Mary stayed with Elizabeth about 3 months, then she went back to her own home.

⁵⁷Then the time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she had a son.

⁵⁸All her family, and the people that lived near her, they heard that she had a baby, and they knew that God had been very good to her. Elizabeth was happy, and they were all happy too.

⁵⁹When the baby was 8 days old, all those people came to Zechariah and Elizabeth’s place. The baby boy had to have a young man’s operation on that day, and they used to give a baby his name at that time. The people wanted to call him Zechariah, the same name that his father had.

⁶⁰But Elizabeth said, “No. His name is John.”

⁶¹They said, “What? Nobody in your family has that name.”