Luke 1:57-80 ▼

57 Elizabethes tyme came, that she shoulde be deliuered, and she brought foorth a sonne.

58 And her neyghbours, and her cosins hearde howe the Lorde hadde shewed great mercy vpo her, and they reioyced with her.

59 And it came to passe, that on the eyght day they came to circumcise the chylde, and called his name Zacharias, after the name of his father.

60 And his mother aunswered, and said: not so, but he shalbe called Iohn.

61 And they sayde vnto her: There is none in thy kinrede that is named with this name.

62 And they made signes to his father, howe he woulde haue hym called.

63 And he asked for wrytyng tables, and wrote, saying, his name is Iohn. And they marueyled all.

64 And his mouth was opened immediatly, and his tounge loosed & he spake, and praysed God.

65 And feare came on all them that dwelt nye vnto them: And all these sayinges were noysed abrode throughout all the hyll countrey of Iurie.

66 And all they that hearde them, layde them vp in their heartes, saying: What maner of chylde shall this be? And the hande of the Lorde was with hym.

67 And his father Zacharias was filled with ye holy ghost, & prophesied, saying.

68 Praysed be ye Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited & redeemed his people.

69 And hath raysed vp an horne of saluation vnto vs, in the house of his seruaunt Dauid.

70 Euen as he promised by the mouth of his holy prophetes, whiche were sence the worlde began.

71 That he would saue vs from our enemies, and from the hande of all that hate vs.

72 That he would deale mercyfully with our fathers, and remember his holy couenaunt.

73 And that he woulde perfourme the oth, which he sware to our father Abraham, for to geue vs.

74 That we, beyng deliuered out of the handes of our enemies, might serue him without feare,

75 All the dayes of our life, in such holynesse and righteousnes as are accepted before hym.

76 And thou childe shalt be called the prophete of the hyghest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lorde, to prepare his wayes.

77 To geue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes.

78 Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spryng from an hygh hath visited vs.

79 To geue lyght to them that sitte in darknesse, and in the shadowe of death, to guide our feete into the way of peace.

80 And the chylde grewe, and waxed strong in spirite, and was in wildernesse till the day came when he should shewe hym selfe vnto the Israelites.