Gospel, Luke 1:57-66

The time came for Elizabeth to have her child, and she gave birth to a son; and when her
neighbours and relations heard that the Lord had lavished on her his faithful love, they
shared her joy. Now it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child;
they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother spoke up. 'No,' she
said, 'he is to be called John.' They said to her, 'But no one in your family has that name,'
and made signs to his father to find out what he wanted him called. The father asked for a
writing-tablet and wrote, 'His name is John.' And they were all astonished. At that instant
his power of speech returned and he spoke and praised God. All their neighbours were
filled with awe and the whole affair was talked about throughout the hill country of
Judaea. All those who heard of it treasured it in their hearts. 'What will this child turn out
to be?' they wondered. And indeed the hand of the Lord was with him.

Gospel, Luke 1:57-66

The time came for Elizabeth to have her child, and she gave birth to a son; and when her
neighbours and relations heard that the Lord had lavished on her his faithful love, they
shared her joy. Now it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child;
they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother spoke up. 'No,' she
said, 'he is to be called John.' They said to her, 'But no one in your family has that name,'
and made signs to his father to find out what he wanted him called. The father asked for a
writing-tablet and wrote, 'His name is John.' And they were all astonished. At that instant
his power of speech returned and he spoke and praised God. All their neighbours were
filled with awe and the whole affair was talked about throughout the hill country of
Judaea. All those who heard of it treasured it in their hearts. 'What will this child turn out
to be?' they wondered. And indeed the hand of the Lord was with him.

Gospel, Luke 1:57-66

The time came for Elizabeth to have her child, and she gave birth to a son; and when her
neighbours and relations heard that the Lord had lavished on her his faithful love, they
shared her joy. Now it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child;
they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother spoke up. 'No,' she
said, 'he is to be called John.' They said to her, 'But no one in your family has that name,'
and made signs to his father to find out what he wanted him called. The father asked for a
writing-tablet and wrote, 'His name is John.' And they were all astonished. At that instant
his power of speech returned and he spoke and praised God. All their neighbours were
filled with awe and the whole affair was talked about throughout the hill country of
Judaea. All those who heard of it treasured it in their hearts. 'What will this child turn out
to be?' they wondered. And indeed the hand of the Lord was with him.