Luke 1:57-66 - The Birth Of John The Baptist

⁵⁷ Now when Elisabeth's time for her delivery was fully come, she brought forth a son: ⁵⁸ and her neighbours and kindred heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they congratulated her;

⁵⁹ and on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child: and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father: ⁶⁰ but his mother said, No, but he shall be called John:

⁶¹ and they said to her, There is none of thy relations of this name. ⁶² And they made signs to his father, what name he would have him called by. ⁶³ And he called for a writing-tablet, and wrote upon it, His name is John: and they all wondered. ⁶⁴ And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake and praised God. ⁶⁵ And an awe fell upon all that dwelt round about them; and all these things were divulged through the whole hill-country of Judea. ⁶⁶ And all that heard them, laid them up in their hearts, saying, What a child will this be? And the hand of the Lord was with him.