Luke 1:18

God's Word

Zechariah said to the angel, “What proof is there for this? I’m an old man, and my wife is beyond her childbearing years.”

Cross References

Genesis 15:8

Abram asked, “Almighty Lord, how can I be certain that I will take possession of it?”

Genesis 17:17

Immediately, Abraham bowed with his face touching the ground. He laughed as he thought to himself, “Can a son be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, have a child?”

Genesis 18:12

And so Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “Now that I’ve become old, will I enjoy myself again? What’s more, my husband is old!”

2 Kings 7:2

The servant on whose arm the king was leaning answered the man of God, “Could this happen even if the Lord poured rain through windows in the sky?” Elisha replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat any of it.”

Isaiah 38:22

Hezekiah asked, “What is the sign that I’ll go to the Lord’s temple?”

Luke 1:34

Mary asked the angel, “How can this be? I’m a virgin.”

Luke 1:7

Yet, they never had any children because Elizabeth couldn’t become pregnant. Both of them were too old to have children.

Romans 4:19

Abraham didn’t weaken. Through faith he regarded the facts: His body was already as good as dead now that he was about a hundred years old, and Sarah was unable to have children.