Luke 1:59 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And it occurred that on the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were intending to call him Zachariah after his father, [Gen. 17:12; Lev. 12:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

Common English Bible

On the eighth day, it came time to circumcise the child. They wanted to name him Zechariah because that was his father’s name.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And it happened that, on the eighth day, they arrived to circumcise the boy, and they called him by his father's name, Zechariah.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him by his father's name Zachary.

Luke 1:59 Cross References

Genesis 17:12

And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

Leviticus 12:3

And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Luke 2:21

And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called JESUS, which was so called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Acts 7:8

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

Philippians 3:5

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;