59 And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were wanting to name him after[a] his father Zechariah. 60 And his mother answered and[b] said, “No, but he will be named John.” 61 And they said to her, “There is no one of your relatives who is called by this name.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:59 Literally “in the name of”
  2. Luke 1:60 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb