But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in years.

according to the custom of the priestly office, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.

for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’