63And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.
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And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 57-66)In these verses, we have, I. The birth of John Baptist, Luke 1:57. Though he was conceived in the womb by miracle, he continued in the womb according to the ordinary course of nature (so did our Saviour): Elisabeth’s full time came, that she should be delivered , and then she brought forth a son . Promised mercies are to be expected when the full time for them is come, and not before. II. The grea…
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