![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The duties at the temple in Jerusalem alternated between each of the family lines that had descended from those appointed by king David ( 1 Chronicles 24:1–19). When the events related in Luke began, their marriage was still childless, because Elizabeth was "barren", and they were both "well advanced in years" ( Luke 1:5–7). The evangelist states that both the parents were righteous before God, since they were "blameless" in observing the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. A medieval Georgian fresco from the Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem.Īccording to the Gospel of Luke, during the reign of king Herod, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the course of Abia, whose wife Elizabeth was also of the priestly family of Aaron. In the Bible he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke ( 1:67–79), and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary ( Luke 1:36). Zechariah ( Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה Zəḵaryāh, "remember Yah" Greek: Ζαχαρίας Zacharias in KJV Zachary in the Douay–Rheims Bible Zakariyya ( Arabic: زكـريـا, romanized: Zakariyyā) in Islamic tradition) is a figure in the New Testament and the Quran, and venerated in Christianity and Islam. Annunciation of the Angel to Zechariah by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1490, fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel, Florence) ![]()
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