and having asked for a tablet, he wrote, saying, ‘John is his name;’ and they did all wonder;
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,
No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,
And Jehovah answereth me and saith: ‘Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.
And Jesus having heard, did wonder, and said to those following, ‘Verily I say to you, not even in Israel so great faith have I found;
and the messenger said unto him, ‘Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,
and his mother answering said, ‘No, but he shall be called John.’