Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Cross-reference
In Genesis 17:17, Abraham laughs at this very prospect—his body and Sarah's age making natural conception seem impossible.
Genesis 21:7 fulfills this: the woman who had ceased menstruating now nurses a son in her old age — the impossible made real.
Genesis 11:30 adds Sarah's lifelong barrenness, compounding the impossibility of childbearing emphasized by her advanced age here.
In Luke 1:7, Elizabeth mirrors Sarah: barren and both well along in years, setting up the same miraculous-birth pattern through divine promise.
In Luke 1:18, Zechariah raises this same obstacle—'I am an old man and my wife is well along in years'—echoing Sarah's condition.
In Luke 1:36, Gabriel tells Mary that Elizabeth—barren and now old—has conceived, directly mirroring Sarah's situation.
In Romans 4:19, Paul explicitly cites this: Abraham faced that his body and Sarah's womb were 'as good as dead,' yet believed God's power.
In Hebrews 11:11, Sarah's faith enabled her to conceive despite being past childbearing age—directly referencing this condition.
Hebrews 11:12 explicitly references Abraham being 'as good as dead,' grounding the famous faith-hall in the old-age detail given here.
Romans 4:19 echoes this same detail — Abraham's body and Sarah's womb described as physically dead — emphasizing the human impossibility of the promise.
Isaiah 51:2 recalls Abraham and Sarah as a pattern: God multiplied one old, barren couple into a nation — echoing the impossibility here.
Hebrews 11:19 shows Abraham trusting God for life from death — the same trust in impossible promise born from the old-age scenario here.