54 He has kept the promise he made to our ancestors,and has come to the help of his servant Israel.
55 He has remembered to show mercy to Abrahamand to all his descendants for ever!”
56 Mary stayed about three months with Elizabeth and then went back home.
57 The time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.
58 Her neighbours and relatives heard how wonderfully good the Lord had been to her, and they all rejoiced with her.
59 When the baby was a week old, they came to circumcise him, and they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.
60 But his mother said, “No! His name is to be John.”