"And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age -- although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

who will not receive many times more in this age -- and in the age to come, eternal life."

Zechariah said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well."

He also told them a parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is good enough.'"