58 And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her,[a] and they rejoiced with her. 59 And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were wanting to name him after[b] his father Zechariah. 60 And his mother answered and[c] said, “No, but he will be named John.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:58 Literally “the Lord had made great his mercy with her”
  2. Luke 1:59 Literally “in the name of”
  3. Luke 1:60 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb