¹⁷ Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed^(A) and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?”

¹⁸ “How can I know this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”^[a]

⁶ just as Sarah^(A) obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming.^(B)