Fas-aloo ahla ad-dhikr in kuntum laa ta'lamoon.
So Ask the people of the reminder if you do not know.
We have access to it now with multiple research abd comparison capabilities.
I've looked up his name and found this - I've added some details where relevant.
Zechariah (זכריה in Hebrew ; "remember God" (dhikr?); Ζαχαρίας in Greek, Zacharias in KJV, Zachary in the Douay-Rheims Bible; زكريّا in Arabic, Zakariyyāʾ) is a figure in the Bible and the Quran. In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron, a prophet in Luke 1:67–79, and the husband of Elizabeth (Elisha -Beth) who is a relative[Luke 1:36] of the Virgin Mary.
According to the Gospel of Luke, during the reign of king Herod,
there was a priest named Zechariah, of the course of Abia, whose wife Elizabeth was also of the priestly family of Aaron. The evangelist states that both the parents were righteous before God, since they were "blameless" in observing the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. When the events related in Luke began, their marriage was still childless, because Elizabeth was "barren", and they were both "well advanced in years" (Luke 1:5–7).
The duties at the temple in Jerusalem alternated between each of the family lines that had descended from those appointed by king David (1st Chronicles 24:1–19).[1] Luke states that during the week when it was the duty of Zechariah's family line to serve at "the temple of the Lord", the lot for performing the incense offering had fallen to Zechariah (Luke 1:8–11).
The Gospel of Luke states that while Zechariah ministered at the altar of incense, an angel of the Lord appeared and announced to him that his wife would give birth to a son, whom he was to name John, and that this son would be the forerunner of the Lord (Luke 1:12–17). Citing their advanced age, Zechariah asked with disbelief for a sign whereby he would know the truth of this prophecy. In reply, the angel identified himself as Gabriel, sent especially by God to make this announcement, and added that because of Zechariah's doubt he would be struck dumb and "not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed". Consequently, when he went out to the waiting worshippers in the temple's outer courts, he was unable to speak the customary blessing (Luke 1:18–22).
After returning to his house in "Hebron, in the hill country of Judah",[2] his wife Elizabeth conceived. After Elizabeth completed her fifth month of pregnancy, her relative Mary was visited by the same angel, Gabriel, overshadowed by the Holy Ghost and – though still a virgin – became pregnant with Jesus. Mary then travelled to visit her relative Elizabeth, having been told by the angel that Elizabeth was in her sixth month of pregnancy. Mary remained about three months before she returned to her own house (Luke 1:23–45, 56).
Elizabeth gave birth, and on the eighth day, when their son was to be circumcised according to the commandment, her neighbours and relatives assumed that he was to be named after his father. Elizabeth, however, insisted that his name was to be John; so the family then questioned her husband. As soon as Zechariah had written on a writing table: "His name is John", he regained the power of speech, and blessed "the Lord God of Israel" with a prophecy known to some as the Benedictus (Luke 1:57–79). The child grew up and
"waxed strong in spirit", but remained in the deserts of Judæa until he assumed the ministry that was to earn him the name "John the Baptist" (Luke 1:80, Luke 3:2–3, Matthew 3:1)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_(priest)
In addition to writing and speaking messages from God, Israelite or Jewish nevi'im ("spokespersons", "prophets") often acted out prophetic parables in their life.[9] For example, in order to contrast the people’s disobedience with the obedience of the Rechabites, God has Jeremiah invite the Rechabites to drink wine, in disobedience to their ancestor’s command. The Rechabites refuse, wherefore God commends them.[10][11] Other prophetic parables acted out by Jeremiah include burying a linen belt so that it gets ruined to illustrate how God intends to ruin Judah's pride.[12][13][13][14] Likewise, Jeremiah buys a clay jar and smashes it in the Valley of Ben Hinnom in front of elders and priests to illustrate that God will smash the nation of Judah and the city of Judah beyond repair.[15] God instructs Jeremiah to make a yoke from wood and leather straps and to put it on his own neck to demonstrate how God will put the nation under the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.[16] In a similar way, the prophet Isaiah had to walk stripped and barefoot for three years to illustrate the coming captivity,[17] and the prophet Ezekiel had to lie on his side for 390 days and eat measured food to illustrate the coming siege.[18]
The prophetic assignment is not always portrayed as positive in the Hebrew Bible,[19][20][21]
and prophets were often the target of persecution and opposition.[22] God’s personal prediction to Jeremiah, "Attack you they will, overcome you they can't,"[23] was performed many times in the biblical narrative as Jeremiah warned of destruction of those who continued to refuse repentance and accept more moderate consequences.[22][24] In return for his adherence to God’s discipline and speaking God’s words, Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers,[25] beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet,[26][27] imprisoned by the king,[28] threatened with death,[29] thrown into a cistern by Judah’s officials,[30] and opposed by a false prophet.[31] Likewise, Isaiah was told by his hearers who rejected his message, "Leave the way! Get off the path! Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel!"[20][32] The life of Moses being threatened by Pharaoh is another example.[33]
According to I Samuel 9:9,[34] the old name for navi is ro'eh, רֹאֶה, which literally means "Seer". That could document an ancient shift, from viewing prophets as seers for hire to viewing them as moral teachers.
Allen (1971) comments that in the First Temple Era, there were essentially seer-priests, who formed a guild, divined, performed rituals and sacrifices, and were scribes, and then there were canonical prophets, who did none of these (and were against divination) and had instead a message to deliver. [citation needed] The seer-priests were usually attached to a local shrine or temple, such as Shiloh, and initiated others as priests in that priesthood: it was a mystical craft-guild with apprentices and recruitment. Canonical prophets were not organised this way. The similar term ben-navi ("son of the prophet") means "member of a seer-priest guild". [citation needed].
We can surmise/speculate that Zakariyyah :saws: was from the priestly class (one that rises through the established scholarly ranks until at an acceptable degree) in contrast to the other type (such as Ibraheem, Musa, 'Isa, Muhammad (pbut) who usually have no recognized formal scholarship but are tasked by Allah with more interesting, irregular and pragmatic duties), whereas his son Yahya was one of the latter bewildering types like his cousin.
We can see that Zakariyya was surrounded by good and also by the evil babylonian masonic types and most likely knew about the dark arts and corrupt and cursed practices of some of the scribes and leaders working for shaytaan and for the pagan Roman occupiers. Also from the fact that his son is reported to have spent more time in the desert than in the city, it's likely that zakariyya was worried about more than a formal education and temple duties.
The fact that he says innee khift ul mawaaliya min wara-ee, (I fear for my dependents/wards/those under my guardianship after me) despite being at the centre of the holy city and attached to the mosques and having respected status there indicates that a dark and evil cloud was surrounding the more visible pleasing of God with the mouths, and the fact that the last two Prophets of Banee Israeel were sent immediately afterwards to shake things up and cause a huge stir strengthens this hypothesis along with the fact that Yahya :saws: was martyred "between the altar and the temple" (though Zakariyya could be silenced by refutal with the edited scripture - Yahya couldn't and neither could his cousin).
And allah knows best.