Luke 1:76
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Isaiah 40:3-5
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3 A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
the way(A) for the Lord[a];
make straight(B) in the desert
a highway for our God.[b](C)
4 Every valley shall be raised up,(D)
every mountain and hill(E) made low;
the rough ground shall become level,(F)
the rugged places a plain.
5 And the glory(G) of the Lord will be revealed,
and all people will see it together.(H)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”(I)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 40:3 Or A voice of one calling in the wilderness: / “Prepare the way for the Lord
- Isaiah 40:3 Hebrew; Septuagint make straight the paths of our God
Mark 1:2-3
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Matthew 11:9-10
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9 Then what did you go out to see? A prophet?(A) Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. 10 This is the one about whom it is written:
Footnotes
- Matthew 11:10 Mal. 3:1
John 1:23
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23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,(A) ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”[a](B)
Footnotes
- John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3
Matthew 14:5
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5 Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of the people, because they considered John a prophet.(A)
Matthew 3:3
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3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:
Footnotes
- Matthew 3:3 Isaiah 40:3
Acts 16:17
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17 She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God,(A) who are telling you the way to be saved.”
Luke 1:35
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Luke 1:32
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32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.(A) The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,(B)
Mark 11:32
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32 But if we say, ‘Of human origin’ …” (They feared the people, for everyone held that John really was a prophet.)(A)
Acts 13:24-25
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24 Before the coming of Jesus, John preached repentance and baptism to all the people of Israel.(A) 25 As John was completing his work,(B) he said: ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not the one you are looking for.(C) But there is one coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’(D)
John 3:28
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28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.’(A)
John 1:27
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Luke 7:27-28
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27 This is the one about whom it is written:
28 I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God(B) is greater than he.”
Footnotes
- Luke 7:27 Mal. 3:1
Luke 6:35
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35 But love your enemies, do good to them,(A) and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children(B) of the Most High,(C) because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
Luke 3:4-6
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4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:
Footnotes
- Luke 3:6 Isaiah 40:3-5
Luke 1:16-17
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16 He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go on before the Lord,(A) in the spirit and power of Elijah,(B) to turn the hearts of the parents to their children(C) and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”(D)
Matthew 21:26
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26 But if we say, ‘Of human origin’—we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet.”(A)
Matthew 3:11
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11 “I baptize you with[a] water for repentance.(A) But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with[b] the Holy Spirit(B) and fire.(C)
Footnotes
- Matthew 3:11 Or in
- Matthew 3:11 Or in
Malachi 4:5
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5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah(A) to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.(B)
Psalm 87:5
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5 Indeed, of Zion it will be said,
“This one and that one were born in her,
and the Most High himself will establish her.”
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