Luke 1:59-61
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
59 [a]When they came on the eighth day to circumcise(A) the child, they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, 60 but his mother said in reply, “No. He will be called John.”(B) 61 But they answered her, “There is no one among your relatives who has this name.”
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- 1:59 The practice of Palestinian Judaism at this time was to name the child at birth; moreover, though naming a male child after the father is not completely unknown, the usual practice was to name the child after the grandfather (see Lk 1:61). The naming of the child John and Zechariah’s recovery from his loss of speech should be understood as fulfilling the angel’s announcement to Zechariah in Lk 1:13, 20.
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