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Several months before Jesus was born, there was a priest named Zachariah who was silenced

by God during the time when his wife was pregnant.

After naming his newborn son John, his speech returned, and his words were so astonishing

that it got everyone talking.

We'll hear about Zachariah's song today on Truth for Life.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Luke 1, starting in verse 57.

Everybody apparently has an opinion on what's going on, and on the eighth day when the time

came according to the process of the law for the child to be circumcised, you will notice

what it says, they were going to name him after his father Zachariah.

Now the question is who was they?

Because it clearly wasn't Elizabeth and Zachariah.

So it seems it was everybody else, and they had all decided that since it was such a community

event, and since they had all been looking forward to the arrival of this child, it was

very appropriate that he should be named Zachariah also.

Now the responsible is, is it this fairly clear?

No.

So unable to get closure to their desire, they turned to the father of Silent Zach, you

know.

And he writes in such a way so as to leave no one in any doubt as to the name.

His name is John.

And suddenly in the same way that his unbelief had been responded to with dumbness, so now

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