It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.
The circumcision of John seems to be performed in Zacharias's house, and by one of those that came; for Zacharias, being dumb, could not say the blessing which the circumciser was obliged to say: nor indeed could he say that, which, as the father of the child, belonged to him; concerning which, take the following account o: