¶ And Zacary said unto the angel: Whereby shall I know this? seeing that I am old, and my wife well stricken in years.
¶ Then said Mary unto the angel: How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And they had no child, because that Elizabeth was barren, And both were well stricken in age.
And he fainted not in the faith, nor yet considered his own body, which was now dead, even when he was almost an hundred year old. Neither considered he the barrenness of Sara.