Curiously, there are more than thirty Zechariahs in the Old Testament yet only one mentioned in the New Testament. This New Testament Zechariah was recorded by Luke as having been a very good and holy ...

I’m not the only preacher who wonders occasionally about the logic of the Sunday lectionary readings. Why is this text included but not that one? I usually conclude that someone wiser than I is ...

Luke's Gospel records: "Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and proclaimed the words we have come to identify as the Benedictus-"because in Latin the first words he uttered is benedictus, ...