He asked for a tablet and wrote, “John is his name,” and all were amazed.
Do not let love and fidelity forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Now come, write it on a tablet they can keep, inscribe it on a scroll; That in time to come it may be an eternal witness.
The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, Engraved with a diamond point upon the tablets of their hearts, And the horns of their altars,
Then the Lord answered me and said: Write down the vision; Make it plain upon tablets, so that the one who reads it may run.
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith.
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall name him John.
but his mother said in reply, “No. He will be called John.”