Luke 1:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken 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 upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
And Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb: