Luke 1:63

World English Bible (2000)

He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.

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  • Luke 1:60 : 60 His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John."
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
  • Isa 30:8 : 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
  • Jer 17:1 : 1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;
  • Hab 2:2 : 2 Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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    57 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she brought forth a son.

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    59 It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.

    60 His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John."

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  • Luke 1:64-67
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    65 Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

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