All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.
      I. The birth of John Baptist, Luke 1:57; Luke 1:57. Though he was conceived in the womb by miracle, he continued in the womb according to the ordinary course of nature (so did our Saviour): Elisabeth's full time came, that she should be delivered, and then she brought forth a son. Promised mercies are to be expected when the full time for them is come, and not before.