“And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.”
On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah — the eighth-day circumcision is the covenant initiation prescribed in Genesis 17:12 and Leviticus 12:3. The naming at circumcision was the expected practice. The community's assumption that the child will be named Zechariah after his father communicates the normal social expectation that the divine appointment of the name John will disrupt.
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