Luke 1:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ 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.”

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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."

Luke 1:18 Cross References

Genesis 17:17

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?”

Luke 1:34

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”

2 Kings 7:2

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.”

Genesis 15:8

But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”

Luke 1:7

But they had no children because Elizabeth was barren, and both were getting on in years.

Isaiah 38:22

Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”]]

Genesis 18:12

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I be fruitful?”

Romans 4:19

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.