Luke 1:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁸ And Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this? For I am an old man and my wife is [also] very old.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? My wife and I are very old.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.

Luke 1:18 Cross References

Luke 1:34

And Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have never had sex with a man?”

Luke 1:7

But they had no children, because Elizabeth was unable to bear offspring due to their both being very old.

Romans 4:19

Abraham’s faith did not become weak [even though] he was about one hundred years old and considered his body almost dead and Sarah’s womb incapable of conceiving a child.