Change Translation
Loading
- Recent Translations
-
CURRENT TRANSLATIONAudio Available
- All Translations
-
CURRENT TRANSLATIONAudio Available
Luke 1:61
Settings
61
They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.”
Luke 1:61 in Other Translations
KJV
61
And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
ESV
61
And they said to her, "None of your relatives is called by this name."
NLT
61
“What?” they exclaimed. “There is no one in all your family by that name.”
MSG
61
"But," they said, "no one in your family is named that."
CSB
61
Then they said to her, "None of your relatives has that name."
Luke 1:61 Meaning and Commentary
Luke 1:61
And they said unto her
Her neighbours and relations, there is none of thy kindred that is called by this name; from whence it appears, that it was usual to give names to children after their ancestors, relations, and friends. The Persic version renders it, "in thine Israel there is not any one of this name": but this could not be true; for the name of Jochanan, or John, was a name very common among the Israelites, though not in Elisabeth's family, or her husband's.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Luke 1:61 In-Context
59
On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,
60
but his mother spoke up and said, “No! He is to be called John.”
61
They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.”
62
Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child.
63
He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.”
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide.
