"How can I be sure of this?" Zechariah asked the angel. "I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years."
Cross References
Genesis 15:8But Abram replied, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?"
Genesis 17:17Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?"
Genesis 18:12So she laughed to herself, saying, "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"
Treasury of Scripture
And Zacharias said to the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
Whereby.
Luke 1:34
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Genesis 15:8
And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
for.
Luke 1:7
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Numbers 11:21-23
And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month…
2 Kings 7:2
Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
