Zechariah was an old man. He was a priest. An angel appeared to him and told him that his very very old wife was going to have a baby. Zechariah did not believe the angel. The angel made him mute for the full 9 months of his wife’s pregnancy. When God finally allowed him to speak, what did he say?

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, (Luke 1:68–70)