I dok se on u hramu stojeći molio, meleki ga zovnuše: "Allah ti javlja radosnu vijest: rodiće ti se Jahja, koji će u Allahovu knjigu vjerovati, i koji će prvak biti, i čedan, i vjerovjesnik, potomak onih dobrih."
Then the angels called out to him, as he stood praying in the sanctuary: “God gives you good news of John; confirming a Word from God, and honorable, and moral, and a prophet; one of the upright.”