He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.”
but his mother spoke up and said, “No! He is to be called John.”
But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.
Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.
Then the Lord replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.
“Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.