Luke 1:18

Modern English Version

Zechariah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man and my wife well advanced in years.”

Cross References

Genesis 15:8

But Abram said, “Lord God, how may I know that I will possess it?”

Genesis 17:17

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

Genesis 18:12

Therefore Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am so old and my lord is old also, shall I have pleasure?”

2 Kings 7:2

Then an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, “If the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could this thing happen?” And he said, “You will see it with your eyes, but you will not eat from it.”

Isaiah 38:22

Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”

Luke 1:34

Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”

Luke 1:7

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were now well advanced in years.

Romans 4:19

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body to be dead (when he was about a hundred years old), nor yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb.