When the baby was eight days old, all the relatives and friends came for the circumcision ceremony. They all assumed the baby would be named Zachariah, after his father. But Elizabeth said, ‘No! He must be named John!’ It was the name the angel had told Zechariah to give his son. ‘What?’ they exclaimed. ‘There is no one in all your family by that name.’ So they asked Zechariah, talking to him by gestures. – Slide 17