Luke 1:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ He will bring many Israelites back to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ He will go forth before the Lord, equipped with the spirit and power of Elijah. He will turn the hearts of fathers^[a] back to their children, and he will turn the disobedient to righteous patterns of thinking. He will make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

¹⁸ Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? My wife and I are very old.”