Luke 1:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ And Zeḵaryah said to the messenger, “By what shall I know this? For I am old, and my wife advanced 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."

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

Genesis 15:8

And he said, “Master יהוה, whereby do I know that I possess it?”

Genesis 17:17

And Aḇraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Is a child born to a man who is a hundred years old? Or is Sarah, who is ninety years old, to bear a child?”

Genesis 18:12

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old too?”

2 Kings 7:2

And an officer on whose hand the sovereign leaned answered the man of Elohim and said, “Look, if יהוה is making windows in the heavens, shall this word come true?” And he said, “Look, you are about to see it with your eyes, but not eat of it.”

Isaiah 38:22

And Ḥizqiyahu asked, “What is the sign that I go up to the House of יהוה?”

Luke 1:34

And Miryam said to the messenger, “How shall this be, since I do not know a man?”

Luke 1:7

And they had no child, because Elisheḇa was barren, and both were advanced in years.

Romans 4:19

And not having grown weak in belief, he did not consider his own body, already dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb,