Luke 1:23-25

J.B. Phillips New Testament

^21-24 Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zacharias, wondering why he stayed so long in the sanctuary. But when he came out and was unable to speak a word to them—for although he kept making signs, not a sound came from his lips—they realised that he had seen a vision in the Temple. Later, when his days of duty were over, he went back home, and soon afterwards his wife Elisabeth became pregnant and kept herself secluded for five months.

²⁵ “How good the Lord is to me,” she would say, “now that he has taken away the shame that I have suffered.”