⁶⁰ but his mother spoke up and said, “No! He is to be called John.”^(A)

⁶³ He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.”^(A)

John the Baptist Prepares the Way^(A)

3 In those days John the Baptist^(B) came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea