Actually, God did not need to ask any questions to learn something new. Rather, here God used what we today call the Socratic method to teach Zechariah and the readers of this book. God might have been raising Zechariah's curiosity, or acknowledging questions about which Zechariah wondered, or anticipating questions about which readers would be curious.
Kwa kweli, Mungu hana haja ya kuuliza maswali yeyote yale ili ajifunze kitu kipya. Badala yake, katika kifungu hiki, Mungu alitumia kitu tunachoweza kukiita njia ya Kisokrate ya kumfundisha (inayotumia mjadala) Zekaria na wasomaji wa kitabu hiki. Mungu anaweza kuwa aliamsha udadisi wa Zekaria, au aliyasema maswali ambayo Zekaria alikuwa anajiuliza, au aliyatarajia maswali ambayo wasomaji wangeyadadisi.