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Luke - ch 1 v 61 - 80
- They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."
- They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.
- He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.
- His mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God.
- Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.
- All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.
- His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
- "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and worked redemption for his people;
- and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
- (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
- salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;
- to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
- the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,
- to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
- In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
- And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,
- to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,
- because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
- to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace."
- The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
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