13 天使说： "撒迦利亚， 不要怕， 因为你的祈求已蒙垂听， 你妻子以利沙伯要给你生一个儿子， 你要给他起名叫约翰。

14 你必欢喜快乐， 许多人因他出生， 也必喜乐。

15 他在主面前要被尊为大， 淡酒浓酒都不喝， 未出母腹就被圣灵充满。

16 他要使许多以色列人转向主他们的 神。

17 他必有以利亚的灵和能力， 行在主的前面， 叫父亲的心转向儿女， 叫悖逆的转向义人的意念， 为主安排那预备好了的人民。"

13 But the angel said to him, "Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. 16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord."