He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And all of them were amazed.
Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Go now, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it on a scroll, so that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen; with a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of their altars,
Then the Lord answered me and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it.
When Jesus heard him, he was amazed and said to those who followed him, “Truly I tell you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith.
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.
But his mother said, “No; he is to be called John.”