Luke 1:60

60 How be it his mother answered and sayd: not so but he shalbe called Ihon.

Luke 1:60 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 1:60

And his mother answered and said
That is, Elisabeth:

not so, but he shall be called John;
knowing that this was the name wherewith the angel said he should be called; either by divine revelation, she being filled with the Holy Ghost, ( Luke 1:41 ) or by information of her husband, who, doubtless, in writing, gave her an account of all that the angel had said unto him.

Luke 1:60 In-Context

58 And her neghboures and her cosins hearde tell how the lorde had shewed great mercy vpon her and they reioysed with her.

59 And it fortuned ye eyght daye: they cam to circumcise the chylde: and called his name zacharias after the name of his father.

60 How be it his mother answered and sayd: not so but he shalbe called Ihon.

61 And they sayd vnto hyr: Ther is none of thy kynne that is named wt this name.

62 And they made signes to his father how he wolde have him called.