Luke 1:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.””
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““How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Zacharias said unto the messenger, `Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 1:18 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 15:8But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”
- Genesis 17:17Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
- Genesis 18:12So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- Numbers 11:21But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
- Judges 6:36Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,
- 2 Kings 7:2But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
- Isaiah 38:22And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
- Luke 1:7But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.
- Luke 1:34“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
- Romans 4:19Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.
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