^{59 Ref} It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.

^{60 Ref} 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."

^{62 Ref} They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.

^{63 Ref} He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.