Bible Verses About Circumcision: In the presence of the family, &c

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.

On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zechariah, after the name of the father.

His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called Yochanan.”

They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.”