Celebrating the Story: Luke 1:57-80

Luke 1:57-80

From the King James:

 ⁵⁷Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.
 ⁵⁸And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
 ⁵⁹And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
 ⁶⁰And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.
 ⁶¹And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
 ⁶²And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.
 ⁶³And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.
 ⁶⁴And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.
 ⁶⁵And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
 ⁶⁶And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.
 ⁶⁷And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
 ⁶⁸Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
 ⁶⁹And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
 ⁷⁰As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
 ⁷¹That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
 ⁷²To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
 ⁷³The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
 ⁷⁴That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
 ⁷⁵In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
 ⁷⁶And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
 ⁷⁷To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
 ⁷⁸Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
 ⁷⁹To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
 ⁸⁰And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.


© Becky Laney of Operation Actually Read Bible