And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." And they all marveled. And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.

Luke 1:63-64

"John has been inserted as a kind of boundary between the two Testaments, the Old and the New. The Lord indicates it when he says, The Law and the prophets were until John. So he represents the old and heralds the new. Because he represents the old, he is born of an elderly couple; because he represents the new, he is revealed as a prophet in his mother's womb"

- St. Augustine