Luke 1:57-63

⁵⁷The time came for Elizabeth to have her baby and she gave birth to a son.

⁵⁸Her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had showed her great kindness, and they celebrated together with her.

⁵⁹Eight days later they came to circumcise the boy. They planned to call him Zechariah after his father.

⁶⁰“No,” Elizabeth said. “He shall be called John.”

⁶¹“But there's nobody among your relatives who has this name,” they told her.

⁶²Through gestures they asked Zechariah, the boy's father, what he wanted to call his son.

⁶³Zechariah motioned for something to write on. To everyone's surprise he wrote, “His name is John.”