Luke 1:18

WEB

¹⁸Zacharias 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.”

KJV

¹⁸And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

BSB

¹⁸“How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

FBV

¹⁸“^[+] How can I be sure about this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I'm an old man, and my wife is getting old too.”

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Luke 1:7

⁷But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

Isaiah 38:22

²²Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the LORD’s house?”

Genesis 18:12

¹²Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

Genesis 17:17

¹⁷Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

²Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if the LORD made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

Luke 1:34

³⁴Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

Judges 6:36-40

³⁶Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken, ³⁷behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

³⁸It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

³⁹Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”

⁴⁰God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Romans 4:19

¹⁹Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

Numbers 11:21-23

²¹Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’ ²²Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

²³The LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

Genesis 15:8

⁸He said, “Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?”