18Zacharias said to the angel, |How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.|
18Zacharias said to the angel, |How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.|
15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.
17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.|
18 Zacharias said to the angel, |How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.|
19 The angel answered him, |I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.
20 Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.|
1:18And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
1:18Zechariah asked the angel, "How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years."
1:18And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.
1:18And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
1:18And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years?
1:18And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
1:18And Zacharias said to the angel, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife far advanced in years.
1:18And Zacharias said unto the messenger, 'Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?'
1:18And Zacharias said to the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.