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59 Now on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child,[a] and they kept trying to call him by his father’s name, Zechariah. 60 But his mother declared, “No, he will be called John.”

61 But they said to her, “No one among your relatives is called by this name.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:59 cf. Gen. 17:12; Lev. 12:3.