20 So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son.(A) She named(B) him Samuel,[a](C) saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard by God.

13 But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid,(A) Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.(B)

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31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.(A)

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