Luke 1:54-65

⁵⁴He has taken the part of His servant Israel, in remembrance of mercy,

⁵⁵just as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed while there is an age.”

⁵⁶So Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her house.

⁵⁷Now the time for Elizabeth to give birth was completed and she bore a son.

⁵⁸Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had used His great mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.

⁵⁹So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child, and they started calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias.

⁶⁰His mother reacted and said, “Absolutely not; he shall be called John!”

⁶¹So they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”

⁶²So they started motioning to his father, as to what he would have him called.

⁶³Asking for a writing tablet he wrote this: “His name is to be John!” They all marveled.

⁶⁴Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue freed and he started to speak, blessing God.

⁶⁵(Well a fear came on all who lived around them; and all these sayings kept being talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.