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Luke 1:62-64

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.

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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.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    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.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    And they made signes to his father how he wolde have him called.

    And he axed for wrytynge tables and wroote saying: his name is Iohn. And they marvelled all.

    And his mouthe was opened immediatly and his tonge also and he spake lawdynge God.

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  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    Then they made signes to his father, howe he would haue him called.

    So hee asked for writing tables, and wrote, saying, His name is Iohn, and they marueiled all.

    And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue, and he spake and praised God.

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Cross-references (19)

  • Luke 1:20 (v64) Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which…
  • Exodus 4:15-16 (v64) You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall…
  • Jeremiah 1:9 (v64) Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
  • Ezekiel 33:22 (v64) Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the…
  • Psalms 51:15 (v64) Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
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  • Isaiah 30:8 (v63) Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
  • Daniel 4:34-37 (v64) At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High,…
  • Mark 7:32-37 (v64) They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside from…
  • Luke 1:60 (v63) His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”
  • Psalms 30:7-12 (v64) You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled. I cried to you, Yahweh. I made…
  • Psalms 118:18-19 (v64) Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death. Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will…
  • Ezekiel 3:27 (v64) But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him…
  • Ezekiel 29:21 (v64) “In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am…
  • Matthew 9:33 (v64) When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”
  • Luke 1:13 (v63) But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and…
  • Luke 1:22 (v62) When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them,…
  • Isaiah 12:1 (v64) In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort…
  • Jeremiah 17:1 (v63) “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the…
  • Habakkuk 2:2 (v63) Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v64 was restored to its former state, is read in…

was restored to its former state, is read in some copies.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv62–64 62 And they made signs to his father, how…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv62, 64 It was the parents’ place, the father’s especially, to…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv63–64 And he asked for a writing table,.... That is,…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv62–64 Verse 62. They made signs to his father] Who,…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv63–64 He asked - That is, by signs.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v63 As then in circumcision, so now in baptism, names…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv62–64 made signs--showing he was deaf, as well as dumb.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv62–64 62. Made signs—For the father, as we have already…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv62–64 62. made signs] The discussion whether Zacharias was deaf…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv62–64 (62) They made signs to his father.—It seems probable—almost,…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv63–64 A writing-table; better, a writing-tablet. The tablets in use…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain On v63 63. Asked for a writing tablet. Because his tongue…
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain On v64 Further events:
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv62, 64 This refers to the people who were there for…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v62 1:62-63 they used gestures: Zechariah was mute and deaf…
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