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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們就向孩子的父親打手式，看他要叫他甚麼。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 就 向 他 父 亲 打 手 式 ， 问 他 要 叫 这 孩 子 甚 麽 名 字 。

Contextual Overview

⁵⁷ When it was time for Elizabeth to give birth, she had a boy. ⁵⁸ Her neighbors and relatives heard how good the Lord was to her, and they rejoiced with her. ⁵⁹ When the baby was eight days old, they came to circumcise him. They wanted to name him Zechariah because this was his father's name, ⁶⁰ but his mother said, "No! He will be named John." ⁶¹ The people said to Elizabeth, "But no one in your family has this name." ⁶² Then they made signs to his father to find out what he would like to name him. ⁶³ Zechariah asked for a writing tablet and wrote, "His name is John," and everyone was surprised. ⁶⁴ Immediately Zechariah could talk again, and he began praising God. ⁶⁵ All their neighbors became alarmed, and in all the mountains of Judea people continued talking about all these things. ⁶⁶ The people who heard about them wondered, saying, "What will this child be?" because the Lord was with him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 1:22

Reciprocal: Luke 1:20 - thou shalt

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they made signs to his father,.... Who was deaf, as well as dumb; otherwise there would have been no occasion to have signs made to him: and so the word used, in Luke 1:20 signifies both deaf and dumb. These signs were made by hands or head; for such used to be made to a dumb man. According to the canon q, a dumb man nods, and ונרמז "and is nodded", or "beckoned to": and which beckoning one of the commentators r says, is a sign which is expressed either by the hands or head. Such a method as these took with Zacharias, about the name of his son, is directed to in case of a father's deafness, in relation to knowing who is his firstborn; s

"father that is dumb, they search or examine him in the way they search for divorces; if he makes signs, or writes, that this is his firstborn, lo! this takes the double portion.''

How he would have him called; by what name, Zacharias or John; and they were right in applying to him, to whom it most properly belonged, to give a name to his child.

q Misn. Gittin, c. 5. sect 7. r Bartenora in ib. s Maimon. Hitch. Nechalot, c. 2. sect. 15, & 4. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 62. They made signs to his father — Who, it appears from this, was deaf as well as dumb; otherwise they might have asked him, and obtained his answer in this way.