"How can I be sure of this?" Zechariah asked the angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."
"How can this be?" Mary asked the angel. "For I have no husband."
But they had no child, Elizabeth being barren; and both of them were advanced in years.
Though he was nearly a hundred years old, yet his faith did not fail him, even when he thought of his own body, then utterly worn out, and remembered that Sarah was past bearing children.