Luke 1:61

THE MESSAGE

"But," they said, "no one in your family is named that." They used sign language to ask Zachariah what he wanted him named.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they said to her, “None of your relatives has that name.”

King James Version (1611)
And they said vnto her, There is none of thy kinred that is called by this name.

King James Version
And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

English Standard Version
And they said to her, "None of your relatives is called by this name."

New American Standard Bible
And they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."

New Century Version
The people said to Elizabeth, "But no one in your family has this name."

Amplified Bible
And they said to her, "None of your relatives is called by that name."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by that name."

Legacy Standard Bible
And they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."

Berean Standard Bible
They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who bears this name."

Contemporary English Version
The people argued, "No one in your family has ever been named John."

Complete Jewish Bible
They said to her, "None of your relatives has that name,"

Darby Translation
And they said to her, There is no one among thy kinsfolk who is called by this name.

Easy-to-Read Version
The people said to Elizabeth, "But no one in your family has that name."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they saide vnto her, There is none of thy kindred, that is named with this name.

George Lamsa Translation
And they said to her, There is no man in your family, who is called by this name.

Good News Translation
They said to her, "But you don't have any relative with that name!"

Lexham English Bible
And they said to her, "There is no one of your relatives who is called by this name."

Literal Translation
And they said to her, No one is among your kindred who is called by this name.

American Standard Version
And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

Bible in Basic English
And they said, Not one of your relations has that name.

Hebrew Names Version
They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."

International Standard Version
Their friendsThey">[fn] said to her, "None of your relatives has that name."

Etheridge Translation
And they said to her, No man in thy kindred is called by this name.

Murdock Translation
And they said to her: There is no one among thy kindred called by that name.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they sayde vnto her: There is none in thy kinrede that is named with this name.

English Revised Version
And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

World English Bible
They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they said to her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

Weymouth's New Testament
"There is not one of your family," they said, "who has that name."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei seiden to hir, For no man is in thi kynrede, that is clepid this name.

Update Bible Version
And they said to her, There is none of your kindred that is called by this name.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they said to her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

New English Translation
They said to her, "But none of your relatives bears this name."

New King James Version
But they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."

New Living Translation
"What?" they exclaimed. "There is no one in all your family by that name."

New Life Bible
They said to her, "No one in your family has that name."

New Revised Standard
They said to her, "None of your relatives has this name."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they said unto her - There is, no one from among thy kindred, who is called by this name!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they said to her: There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

Revised Standard Version
And they said to her, "None of your kindred is called by this name."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they sayd vnto hyr: Ther is none of thy kynne that is named wt this name.

Young's Literal Translation
And they said unto her -- `There is none among thy kindred who is called by this name,'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they sayde vnto her: There is none in yi kynne, yt is so called.

Mace New Testament (1729)
they answered her, there is not any of your family of that name.

Simplified Cowboy Version
A few people spoke up and said, "But why would you name him that? You ain't got a single person in your family named John."

Contextual Overview

⁵⁷When Elizabeth was full-term in her pregnancy, she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives, seeing that God had overwhelmed her with mercy, celebrated with her. ⁵⁹On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling him Zachariah after his father. But his mother intervened: "No. He is to be called John." ⁶¹"But," they said, "no one in your family is named that." They used sign language to ask Zachariah what he wanted him named. ⁶³Asking for a tablet, Zachariah wrote, "His name is to be John." That took everyone by surprise. Surprise followed surprise—Zachariah's mouth was now open, his tongue loose, and he was talking, praising God! ⁶⁵A deep, reverential fear settled over the neighborhood, and in all that Judean hill country people talked about nothing else. Everyone who heard about it took it to heart, wondering, "What will become of this child? Clearly, God has his hand in this."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: John 1:6 - John

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they said unto her,.... Her neighbours and relations, there is none of thy kindred that is called by this name; from whence it appears, that it was usual to give names to children after their ancestors, relations, and friends. The Persic version renders it, "in thine Israel there is not any one of this name": but this could not be true; for the name of Jochanan, or John, was a name very common among the Israelites, though not in Elisabeth's family, or her husband's.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is none of thy kindred ... - The Jewish tribes and families were kept distinct. To do this, and to avoid confusion in their genealogical tables, they probably gave only those names which were found among their ancestors. Another reason for this, common to all people, is the respect which is felt for honored parents and ancestors.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 61. None of thy kindred — As the Jewish tribes and families were kept sacredly distinct, it appears the very names of the ancestors were continued among their descendants, partly through reverence for them, and partly to avoid confusion in the genealogical tables, which, for the sake of distinguishing the inheritances, were carefully preserved in each of the families. It seems to be on this account that the neighbours and relatives objected to a name which had not before existed in any branch of the family.