John the Baptist is Born

6	JOHN is BORN
Matt	Mark	Luke 1
		57	Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered,
			and she gave birth to a son.
		58	And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard
			that the Lord had shown great mercy to her,
			and they rejoiced with her.
		59	And on the eighth day
			they came to circumcise the child;
			and they would have named him Zechariah after his father,
		60	but his mother said,
			"Not so;
			he shall be called John."
		61	And they said to her,
			"None of your kindred is called by this name."
		62	And they made signs to his father,
			inquiring what he would have him called.
		63	And he asked for a writing tablet,
			and wrote, "His name is John."
			And they all marveled.
		64	And immediately his mouth was opened
			and his tongue loosed,
			and he spoke, blessing God.
		65	And fear came on all their neighbors.
			And all these things were talked about
			through all the hill country of Judea;
		66	and all who heard them
			laid them up in their hearts, saying,
			"What then will this child be?"
			For the hand of the Lord was with him.
		67	And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit,
			and prophesied, saying,
		68	"Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
			for he has visited and redeemed his people,
		69	and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
			in the house of his servant David,
		70	as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets
			from of old,
		71	that we should be saved from our enemies,
			and from the hand of all who hate us;
		72	to perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
			and to remember his holy covenant,
		73	the oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
		74	to grant us that we,
			being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
			might serve him without fear,
		75	in holiness and righteousness before him
			all the days of our life.
		76	And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
			for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
		77	to give knowledge of salvation to his people
			in the forgiveness of their sins,
		78	through the tender mercy of our God,
			when the day shall dawn upon us from on high
		79	to give light to those who sit in darkness
			and in the shadow of death,
			to guide our feet into the way of peace."
		80	And the child grew and became strong in spirit,
			and he was in the wilderness
			till the day of his manifestation to Israel.

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