14 Ilo ja riemu täyttävät sinut, ja monet iloitsevat hänen syntymästään.

15 Hän on oleva suuri Jumalan mies. Viiniä ja väkijuomaa hän ei juo. Jo äitinsä kohdusta asti hän on täynnä Pyhää Henkeä.

16 Hän kääntää Israelin kansasta monet jälleen Herran, heidän Jumalansa, puoleen.

13 But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

14 And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.

15 For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

16 And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.

17 And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.