Luke 1:13-17

Christian Standard Bible

¹³ But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid,^(A) Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard.^(B) Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.^{(C) 14} There will be joy and delight for you, and many will rejoice at his birth. ¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and will never drink wine or beer.^(D) He will be filled with the Holy Spirit^(E) while still in his mother’s womb.^{(F) 16} He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.^{(G) 17} And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children,^(H) and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.”^(I)