“But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Luke 1 contains 80 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.