Luke 1:54-65

⁵⁴He remembreth mercy: and helpeth his servaunt Israel.

⁵⁵Even as he promised to oure fathers Abraham and to his seede for ever.

⁵⁶And mary aboode with hyr aboute a .iii. monethes and retourned agayne to hyr awne housse.

⁵⁷Elizabethes tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered and she brought forth a sonne.

⁵⁸And her neghboures and her cosins hearde tell how the lorde had shewed great mercy vpon her and they reioysed with her.

⁵⁹And it fortuned the eyght daye: they cam to circumcise the chylde: and called his name zacharias after the name of his father.

⁶⁰How be it his mother answered and sayd: not so but he shalbe called Ihon.

⁶¹And they sayd vnto hyr: Ther is none of thy kynne that is named with this name.

⁶²And they made signes to his father how he wolde have him called.

⁶³And he axed for wrytynge tables and wroote saying: his name is Iohn. And they marvelled all.

⁶⁴And his mouthe was opened immediatly and his tonge also and he spake lawdynge God.

⁶⁵And feare came on all the that dwelt nye vnto them. And all these sayinges were noysed abroade throughout all the hyll countre of Iurie