Luke 1 from Papyrus 4

⁵⁸ Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her. ⁵⁹ On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

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⁶² They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.

⁶³ He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.”

They all marveled. ⁶⁴ His mouth was opened immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God. ⁶⁵ Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea. ⁶⁶ All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” For[1] the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁶⁷ His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

⁶⁸ “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
    for he has visited and redeemed his people;
⁶⁹ and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
⁷⁰     (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been[2] from of old),
⁷¹     salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us;
⁷² to show mercy toward our fathers,
    to remember his holy covenant,
⁷³ the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
⁷⁴     to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
    should serve him without fear,
⁷⁵     in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
⁷⁶ And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
    for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
⁷⁷     to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,
⁷⁸ because of the tender mercy of our God,
    by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
⁷⁹     to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death;
    to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

⁸⁰ The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.