Elizabeth Bears a Son, Who Is Named John. People Wonder What This Child Will Be

⁵⁷ Now for Elizabeth, the time was fulfilled that she might give-birth, and she bore a son. ⁵⁸ And the neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord magnified His mercy with her, and they were rejoicing-with her. ⁵⁹ And it came about that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they^[a] were calling^[b] him Zechariah, on the basis of the name of his father. ⁶⁰ And having responded, his mother said, “No! Instead he will be called John”. ⁶¹ And they said to her that “There is no one from your relatives who is called by this name”. ⁶² And they were motioning to his father as to 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 marveled. ⁶⁴ And at-once his mouth was opened, and his tongue loosed. And he was speaking, blessing God. ⁶⁵ And awe came over all the ones living around them. And all these things were being talked-over in the whole hill country of Judea. ⁶⁶ And all the ones having heard it put these matters in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” For^[c] indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.