You will be with child and give birth to a son. You will name him Creator Sets Free (Jesus).” It seemed like time stood still, and all creation stopped to listen as the messenger continued to speak.
Eight days after the birth of their son, in keeping with the traditional cutting of the flesh ceremony, they named him Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the name given them by the spirit-messenger before the child was born.
“Do not fear!” the messenger said to him. “Your prayers have been heard. The Maker of Life will give you and your wife a son. You will give him the name Gift of Goodwill (John).
There he appeared to a young virgin woman named Bitter Tears (Mary), who was promised in marriage to a man named He Gives Sons (Joseph), a descendant of the great chief Much Loved One (David).
“If Much Loved One (David) calls the Chosen One, ‘My Great Chief,’” he asked them, “then how can the Chosen One be his descendant?” The Upright Ones (Sadducees) had no answer for him.