Luke 1:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I know that this will happen? For I am an old man, and my wife is getting on in years.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Zachariah said to the angel, By what shall I know and be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years. American Standard Version (1901) And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. Common English Bible Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? My wife and I are very old.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Zechariah said to the Angel: "How may I know this? For I am elderly, and my wife is advanced in years." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years. |
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”
So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I be fruitful?”
Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it.”
Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”]]
But they had no children because Elizabeth was barren, and both were getting on in years.
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.