Luke 1:18 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁸ Zechariah asked the angel, ‘How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well on in years.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And Zachariah said to the angel, By what shall I know and be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? My wife and I are very old.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And Zechariah said to the Angel: "How may I know this? For I am elderly, and my wife is advanced in years."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.

Luke 1:18 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 15:8

But Abram said, ‘Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I shall gain possession of it?’

Genesis 17:17

Abraham fell face down; he laughed and said to himself, ‘Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?’

Genesis 18:12

So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, ‘After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?’

2 Kings 7:2

The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, ‘Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?’ ‘You will see it with your own eyes,’ answered Elisha, ‘but you will not eat any of it!’

Isaiah 38:22

Hezekiah had asked, ‘What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the Lord?’

Luke 1:34

‘How will this be,’ Mary asked the angel, ‘since I am a virgin?’

Luke 1:7

But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.

Romans 4:19

Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead – since he was about a hundred years old – and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.