57. Now the time had come for Elizabeth to give birth, and she gave birth to a son.
58. Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had displayed His great mercy toward her; and they were rejoicing with her.
59. And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.
60. But his mother answered and said, "No indeed; but he shall be called John."
61. And they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by that name."
62. And they made signs to his father, as to what he wanted him called.