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Luke 1:59 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. "

Luke 1:59

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57 Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.

58 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

59 On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

60 His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”

61 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”

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"Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,"

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"even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,"

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"it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;"

Luke 1:4

"that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed."

Luke 1:5

"There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth."

Luke 1:6

"They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord."

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