And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zachariah, after the name of his father.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
But the name John is also interpreted the grace of God. Because then by the favor of Divine grace not by nature, Elisabeth conceived this son, they engraved the memory of the benefit on the name of the child.
