Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Luke 1:57 in context
Luke 1:54–60
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He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
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as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and his offspring forever.”
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Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.
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Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.
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Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.
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On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
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His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”
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