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Savior. God promised to send. special person to tell people about the coming Savior, Jesus. In the city of Jerusalem there was a priest named Zacharias. He had a wife named Elizabeth, and they worshiped and loved God. But they were sad that they had no children.
Zacharias was a (king, priest, baker). Zacharias and Elizabeth thought they were too (young, old, poor) to have a baby. The angel told Zacharias to name the baby (Zacharias, Jesus, John). God took away Zacharias’ voice because Zacharias. (doubted God, got angry at God, believed God).
< Zacharias prophesied of John's important role in God's plan. < John would proclaim Jesus to the people and show them how they would find light and peace in Jesus to replace the darkness and trouble of sin.
John’s parents were an older couple named Zacharias and Elizabeth. They were both descended from the priestly family of Aaron (Luke 1:5). The Bible says Elizabeth had not been able to have children. She was “barren, and they were both well advanced in years” (verse 7). Then came the day when Zacharias, while burning incense at the temple ...
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Zacharias the son of Barachias, [one of the twelve prophets, whose writings we have in our hands; but he means Zacharias the father of John,] (But it is likely, as Josephus says, that Zacharias the father of John is meant), as to whom we cannot prove by the [canonical]
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Dec 2, 2016 · He’s the father of John the Baptist, and although he never shows up in your Nativity scenes, Zechariah is an important figure in the story of Christ’s birth. So important, in fact, that when Luke writes down the account of Christ’s life on earth, he begins with Zechariah.
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Until the birth of John the Baptist, his father Zechariah not only couldn’t speak, but he couldn’t hear as well. The people had to make signs to Zechariah to ask what name he wanted for the child (v62). So Zechariah was both deaf and dumb for nine months.
