When Zechariah's time of service in the temple was over, he went home.
Their assistants lived in the villages outside the city, and every seven days a group of them would come into the city and take their turn at guard duty.
When he did come out, he could not speak, and they knew he had seen a vision. He motioned to them with his hands, but did not say a thing.
Soon after that, his wife was expecting a baby, and for five months she did not leave the house. She said to herself,