Luke 1:59

The Message

On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling him Zachariah after his father. But his mother intervened: “No. He is to be called John.”

Cross References

Luke 2:21

When the eighth day arrived, the day of circumcision, the child was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived.

Acts 7:8

“Then he made a covenant with him and signed it in Abraham’s flesh by circumcision. When Abraham had his son Isaac, within eight days he reproduced the sign of circumcision in him. Isaac became father of Jacob, and Jacob father of twelve ‘fathers,’ each faithfully passing on the covenant sign.