13 However, the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zech·a·riʹah, because your supplication has been favorably heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to name him John.+

15 for he will be great in the sight of Jehovah.*+ But he must drink no wine or any alcoholic drink at all,+ and he will be filled with holy spirit even from before birth,*+