Luke 1:66-77

⁶⁶All who heard them stored them in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child become?” For the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁶⁷His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,

⁶⁸“Praised be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to help and he has accomplished redemption for his people.

⁶⁹He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

⁷⁰(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from long ago),

⁷¹salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us.

⁷²He will do this to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,

⁷³the oath that he spoke to Abraham our father.

⁷⁴He swore to grant to us that we, having been delivered out of the hand of our enemies, would serve him without fear,

⁷⁵in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

⁷⁶Yes, and you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his paths, to prepare people for his coming,

⁷⁷to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins.