Luke Chapter 1 verse 59 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 1:59

And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.
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BBE Luke 1:59

And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;
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DARBY Luke 1:59

And it came to pass on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called it after the name of his father, Zacharias.
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KJV Luke 1:59

And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
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WEB Luke 1:59

It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.
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YLT Luke 1:59

And it came to pass, on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 59. - On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. This was always, among the Hebrew people, a solemn day of rejoicing; it resembled in some particulars our baptismal gatherings. Relatives were invited to be present, as witnesses that the child had been formally incorporated into the covenant. It was, too, the time when the name which the newly born was to bear through life was given him.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(59) They came to circumcise the child.--The day of circumcision, as the admission of the child into God's covenant with his people, was, like the day of the baptism of infants among Christians, one on which relatives were invited to be present as witnesses, and was commonly followed by a feast. It was also, as baptism has come to be, the time on which the child received the name which was to bear its witness of the prayers of his parents for him, and of his personal relation to the God of his fathers.They called him . . .--The Greek tense is strictly imperfect--they were calling him. The choice of the name commonly rested with the father, but the kinsfolk seem to have assumed that, in the dumbness of the father, the duty devolved on them, and they, according to a custom not uncommon, showed their respect for the father by choosing his name.