Luke 1:59-61

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⁵⁹ Now on the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were calling him by his father’s name, Zechariah. ⁶⁰ But his mother spoke up.

“No,” she said, “he is to be called John.”

⁶¹ “None of your relatives,” they objected, “is called by that name.”