Luke 1:62-75

Revised Geneva Translation

⁶² Then they made signs to his father, asking how he would like him called.

⁶³ So he asked for writing tablets, and wrote, saying, “His name is John.” And they all marveled.

⁶⁴ And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue. And he spoke and praised God.

⁶⁵ Then fear came on all those who lived near them. And all these words were spread throughout all the hill country of Judea.

⁶⁶ And all those who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What kind of child shall this be?” And the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁶⁷ Then his father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,

⁶⁸ “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people!

⁶⁹ “And He has raised up the Horn of Salvation unto us, in the House of His servant David,

⁷⁰ “as He spoke by the mouth of His Holy Prophets. Who were, since the world began, saying,

⁷¹ ‘deliverance from our enemies, and from the hands of all that hate us.’

⁷² “So that He might show mercy towards our fathers, and remember His Holy Covenant -

⁷³ “the oath, which He swore to our father, Abraham -

⁷⁴ “that he would grant to us. So that we, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, should serve him without fear

⁷⁵ “all the days of our life, in holiness and righteousness before him.