57Now the time that Elizabeth My God oath should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.
58Her neighbors and her relatives heard that Adonai had magnified his eleos ·merciful compassion in action· towards her, and they rejoiced with her.
59On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias Remembered by Yah, after the name of his father.
60His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John Yah is gracious.”
61They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”
62They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.
63He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John Yah is gracious.” They all marveled.