Luke 1:18 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁸ Zechariah said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? I’m an old man, and my wife is well-advanced in age.”

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

Genesis 15:8

So he said, “My Lord Adonai, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

Genesis 17:17

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to his heart, “Will a son be born to a 100-year-old man? Or will Sarah—who is 90 years old—give birth?”

Genesis 18:12

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I’ve grown decrepit, can I have desire—and my lord so old?”

2 Kings 7:2

Then the officer on whose hand the king was leaning responded to the man of God and said, “Look, even if Adonai should make windows in heaven, could this thing happen?” He announced, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but will not eat any of it!”

Isaiah 38:22

Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the House of Adonai?”

Luke 1:34

Miriam said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am not intimate with a man?”

Luke 1:7

But they were childless, because Elizabeth was barren and both of them were elderly.

Romans 4:19

And without becoming weak in faith, he considered his own body—as good as dead, since he was already a hundred years old—and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.