And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.
For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.