Luke 1:61

61 "There is not one of your family," they said, "who 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 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and were going to call him Zechariah, after his father.

60 His mother, however, said, "No, he is to be called John."

61 "There is not one of your family," they said, "who has that name."

62 They asked his father by signs what he wished him to be called.

63 So he asked for a writing-tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." And they all wondered.