001:056 So Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months,
and then returned home.
001:057 Now when Elizabeth's full time was come, she gave birth to a son;
001:058 and her neighbours and relatives heard how the Lord had had
great compassion on her; and they rejoiced with her.
001:059 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child,
and were going to call him Zechariah, after his father.
001:060 His mother, however, said, "No, he is to be called John."
001:061 "There is not one of your family," they said, "who has that name."
001:062 They asked his father by signs what he wished him to be called.
001:063 So he asked for a writing-tablet, and wrote, "His name is John."
And they all wondered.
001:064 Instantly his mouth and his tongue were set free, and he began
to speak and bless God.
001:065 And all who lived round about them were filled with awe,
and throughout the hill country of Judaea reports of all
these things were spread abroad.