Luke 1:61

61 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.”

Luke 1:61 in Other Translations

61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

61 And they said to her, "None of your relatives is called by this name."

61 “What?” they exclaimed. “There is no one in all your family by that name.”

61 "But," they said, "no one in your family is named that."

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.

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.”