How did Elizabeth know the name was "John"
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Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone's astonishment he wrote, "His name is John."
He had all the time prior to this to write it out to her. That is most likely how he would have communicated it to her. Zechariah writing here is just to show everyone else.
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The text doesn't say directly, so there is no certain answer. It's likely that Zechariah communicated the name in some other fashion.
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If she could know that Mary was pregnant with the messiah (In Luke 1:39, we see that Elizabeth visited Mary shortly after Angel Gabriel had visited her and prophesied to her that she would give birth to the Christ- the bible clearly mentions that Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit), in the same way, we can say its certain that she knew by the spirit that her child's name was John.
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