His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Luke 1:60 in context
Luke 1:57–63
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Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.
58
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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They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”
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They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.
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He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.”
They all marveled.
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