178 Grk “And it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
179 They were following OT law (Lev 12:3) which prescribed that a male child was to be circumcised on the eighth day.
180 This could be understood as a conative imperfect, expressing an unrealized desire (“they were trying to name him”). It has been given more of a voluntative nuance in the translation.

In other versions

And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father,

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,

When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

When the baby was eight days old, they all came for the circumcision ceremony. They wanted to name him Zechariah, after his father.

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were wanting to name him after his father Zechariah.

And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

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