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Zacharias
This excerpt is taken from the December 1990 Ensign
Article Title: Twelve Witnesses of Christ's Birth
By: Joseph Fielding McConkie
Who was this Zacharias to whom Gabriel appeared? He was one of the “just and holy,” as was his wife, Elisabeth. (Alma 13:26.) Zacharias was a descendant of Abia, whose name meant “remembered of Jehovah.” Elisabeth, like Zacharias, was a descendant of priests (see Luke 1:5), and her name meant “consecrated to God.”
Thus, this noble couple were, in the nativity story, to be remembered of Jehovah. Promised a child destined to be the earthly forerunner of the Messiah, Zacharias received the sign from Gabriel that he would remain “not able to speak, unto the day that these things shall be performed,” because he did not believe the Lord’s prophetic promise. (Luke 1:20.)
He remained mute until “Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered.” It was then that Zacharias’s “mouth was opened” and he bore witness of the divine mission of his newborn son, testifying that he would “go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways.” News of these miraculous occurrences “were noised abroad throughout Judea.” (Luke 1:57, 64, 65, 76.)
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