Luke 1:60-80 ▼

60 and his mother answering said, “No, but he will be called John.”

61 And they said to her, “There is none among your relatives who is called by this name,”

62 and they were making signs to his father, what he would wish him to be called,

63 and having asked for a tablet, he wrote, saying, “John is his name”; and they all wondered;

64 and his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue, and he was speaking, praising God.

65 And fear came on all those dwelling around them, and in all the hill-country of Judea were all these sayings spoken of,

66 and all who heard laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” And the hand of the LORD was with him.

67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

68 “Blessed [is] the LORD, the God of Israel, || Because He looked on, || And worked redemption for His people,

69 And raised a horn of salvation to us, || In the house of His servant David,

70 As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, || Which have been from the age;

71 Salvation from our enemies, || And out of the hand of all hating us,

72 To do kindness with our fathers, || And to be mindful of His holy covenant,

73 An oath that He swore to Abraham our father,

74 To give to us, without fear, || Having been delivered out of the hand of our enemies,

75 To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness || Before Him, all the days of our life.

76 And you, child, || Prophet of the Highest will you be called; For you will go before the face of the LORD, || To prepare His ways.

77 To give knowledge of salvation to His people || In forgiveness of their sins,

78 Through the yearnings of our God, || In which the rising from on high looked on us,

79 To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, || To guide our feet to a way of peace.”

80 And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts until the day of his showing to Israel.