59-60 On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling him Zachariah after his father. But his mother intervened: “No. He is to be called John.”

61-62 “But,” they said, “no one in your family is named that.” They used sign language to ask Zachariah what he wanted him named.

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

61 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.”

62 Then they made signs(B) to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child.

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