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On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy’s foreskin shall be circumcised,[a](A)

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  1. 12:3 Circumcision is the sign of the covenant between God and Israel (Gn 17:1–27) and allows full participation in the religious community (Ex 12:43–49; Jos 5:2–10). This command was fulfilled after Jesus’ birth (Lk 2:21).

On the eighth day(A) the boy is to be circumcised.(B)

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59 [a]When they came on the eighth day to circumcise(A) the child, they were going to call him Zechariah after his father,

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  1. 1:59 The practice of Palestinian Judaism at this time was to name the child at birth; moreover, though naming a male child after the father is not completely unknown, the usual practice was to name the child after the grandfather (see Lk 1:61). The naming of the child John and Zechariah’s recovery from his loss of speech should be understood as fulfilling the angel’s announcement to Zechariah in Lk 1:13, 20.

59 On the eighth day they came to circumcise(A) the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,

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The Circumcision and Naming of Jesus. 21 When eight days were completed for his circumcision,[a] he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.(A)

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  1. 2:21 Just as John before him had been incorporated into the people of Israel through his circumcision, so too this child (see note on Lk 1:57–66).

21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child,(A) he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.(B)

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