10and all the multitude of the people were praying outside, at the hour of the incense.
11And there appeared to him a messenger of the LORD standing on the right side of the altar of the incense,
12and Zacharias, having seen, was troubled, and fear fell on him;
13and the messenger said to him, “Do not fear, Zacharias, for your supplication was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you will call his name John,
14and there will be joy to you, and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,
15for he will be great before the LORD, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and he will be full of the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb;
16and he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the LORD their God,