Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
      2. When he came out, he was speechless,Luke 1:22; Luke 1:22. He was now to have dismissed the congregation with a blessing, but was dumb and not able to do it, that the people may be minded to expect the Messiah, who can command the blessing, who blesseth indeed, and in whom all the nations of the earth are blessed. Aaron's priesthood is now shortly to be silenced and set aside, to make way for the bringing in of a better hope.