⁵⁸ Her neighbors and relatives heard how Adonai had shown her His great mercy, and they began to rejoice with her.

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.”