Parallel Verses
Amplified
And Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I be certain of this? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in age.”
New American Standard Bible
Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? For
King James Version
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
Holman Bible
“How can I know this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”
International Standard Version
Then Zechariah asked the angel, "How can I be sure of this, since I am an old man, and my wife is getting older?"
A Conservative Version
And Zacharias said to the agent, How will I know this? For I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days.
American Standard Version
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
An Understandable Version
And Zacharias said to the angel, "How will I know this? For I am an old man and my wife is [also] very old."
Anderson New Testament
And Zachariah said to the angel: By what sign shall I know this? for I am old, and my wife is advanced in years.
Bible in Basic English
And Zacharias said to the angel, How may I be certain of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far on in years.
Common New Testament
And Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
Daniel Mace New Testament
But Zacharias said to the angel, by what sign shall I know this? for I am old, and my wife is of a great age.
Darby Translation
And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years?
Godbey New Testament
And Zacharias said to the angel: According to what shall I know this? for I am old and my wife advanced in her days.
Goodspeed New Testament
Zechariah said to the angel, "How am I to know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in life."
John Wesley New Testament
And Zacharias said to the angel, Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years.
Julia Smith Translation
And Zacharias said to the messenger, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in her days.
King James 2000
And Zachariah said unto the angel, How shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well advanced in years.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Zechariah said to the angel, "By what will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced {in years}!"
Modern King James verseion
And Zacharias said to the angel, By what shall I know this? For I am old, and my wife is advanced in her days.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Zacharias said unto the angel, "Whereby shall I know this? Seeing that I am old, and my wife well stricken in years."
Moffatt New Testament
Zechariah said to the angel, "But how am I to be sure of this? I am an old man myself, and my wife is advanced in years."
Montgomery New Testament
"How shall I be sure of this?" said Zachariah to the Angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."
NET Bible
Zechariah said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well."
New Heart English Bible
Zechariah said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
Noyes New Testament
And Zachariah said to the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in years.
Sawyer New Testament
And Zachariah said to the angel, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years.
The Emphasized Bible
And Zachariah said unto the messenger - Whereby, shall I know this? for, I, am, aged, and, my wife, advanced in her days.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And Zacharias said to the angel, By what shall I know this? for I am old, and my wife far advanced in her age.
Twentieth Century New Testament
"How can I be sure of this?" Zechariah asked the angel. "For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."
Webster
And Zacharias said to the angel, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife far advanced in years.
Weymouth New Testament
"By what proof," asked Zechariah, "shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in years."
Williams New Testament
Then Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in years."
World English Bible
Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
Worrell New Testament
And Zacharias said to the angel, "By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in her days."
Worsley New Testament
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife far advanced in years.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Zacharias said unto the messenger, 'Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?'
Themes
Angel (a spirit) » Appearances of » To zacharias
Angel (a spirit) » Functions of » Announces the birth of john the baptist
Barrenness » Miraculously removed, instances of » Elisabeth
Children » Sometimes born when parents were old
Elisabeth (elizabeth) » The wife of zacharias and the mother of john the baptist
Gabriel » Appeared to » Zacharias
Joy » Instances of » Of elisabeth, when mary visited her
Miracles » Catalogue of » The conception by elizabeth
Sign » Asked for by, and given to » Zacharias
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 1:18
Prayers for Luke 1:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Prediction Of John The Baptist's Birth
17
It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous [which is to seek and submit to the will of God]—in order to make ready a people [perfectly] prepared [spiritually and morally] for the Lord.”
Cross References
Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”
Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, “Lord
Luke 1:34
Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin and have no intimacy with any man?”
Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed to herself [when she heard the Lord’s words], saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure and delight, my lord (husband) being also old?”
Numbers 11:21-23
But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 [fighting men] on foot [besides all the women and children]; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat it for a whole month!’
Judges 6:36-40
Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to rescue Israel through me, as You have spoken,
2 Kings 7:2
Then the royal officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “If the Lord should make windows in heaven [for the rain], could this thing take place?” Elisha said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but [because you doubt] you will not eat of it.”
Isaiah 38:22
Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?”
Luke 1:7
But they were childless, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both far advanced in years.
Romans 4:19
Without becoming weak in faith he considered his own body, now as good as dead [for producing children] since he was about a hundred years old, and [he considered] the deadness of Sarah’s womb.