Many of the questions that people ask in the gospels are worth pondering. In today’s gospel reading, we find one such question, ‘What will this child turn out to be?’ The question was people’s response to the unusual circumstances surrounding the birth of John the Baptist. His father, Zechariah, had insisted that his newborn child was to be called ‘John’, even though no one in the family ever had the name ‘John’. However, this was the name the angel Gabriel had given to the child who was to be born of Zechariah and Elizabeth when Gabriel appeared to Zechariah. Zechariah,…