Luke 1:57-66
“When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.
On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, but his mother spoke up and said,
‘No! He is to be called John.’
They said to her, ‘There is no one among your relatives who has that name.’
Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote,
‘His name is John.’
Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God. All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things. Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, ‘What then is this child going to be?’ For the Lord’s hand was with him.”
From Zechariah’s song (Luke 1:67-79):
“And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
for you will go on before the Lord
to prepare the way for Him,
to give His people the knowledge of salvation
through the forgiveness of their sins,
to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
This time, both Zechariah and Elizabeth believed. They believed the miracle of this baby’s birth in their old age had come from God. They accepted the calling on his life, to prepare the way for Jesus. And they obeyed the Lord by naming him John.
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