John 1:23
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
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John 1:23
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
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John 1:22
So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?
John 1:23
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
John 1:24
Those who had been sent came from the Pharisees.
John 1:20
He said quite openly and straightforwardly, I am not the Christ.
John 1:30
This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.
Luke 3:15
And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,
Luke 3:16
John made answer, saying to them all, Truly, I give you baptism with water, but one is coming who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:
John 1:8
He himself was not the light: he was sent to give witness about the light.
John 1:36
And looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of God!
John 5:35
He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.
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Matthew 3:1
And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,
Matthew 3:2
Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.
Matthew 3:3
For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
Matthew 3:4
Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
Isaiah 40:3
A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.
Isaiah 40:4
Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley,
Isaiah 40:5
And the glory of the Lord will be made clear, and all flesh will see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it.
Mark 1:2
Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way;
Mark 1:3
The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;
Mark 1:4
John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.
Mark 1:5
And there went out to him all the people of Judaea, and all those of Jerusalem, and they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying that they were sinners.
Luke 3:2
When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.
Luke 3:3
And he came into all the country round about Jordan, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.
Luke 3:4
As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
Luke 1:80
And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.
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John 1:21
And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.
John 1:19
And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?
John 1:25
And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?
John 1:26
John's answer was: I give baptism with water; but there is one among you of whom you have no knowledge;
John 1:27
It is he who is coming after me; I am not good enough to undo his shoes.
John 1:28
These things took place at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was giving baptism.
John 1:29
The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 3:28
You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.
John 3:29
He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.
Matthew 3:11
Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:
Mark 1:7
And he said to them all, There is one coming after me who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.
John 1:14
And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.
John 1:15
John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.
John 1:34
This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.
Acts 13:25
And when John was completing his work, he said, What do I seem to you to be? I am not he; but one is coming after me, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.
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Malachi 3:1
See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
Luke 1:16
And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.
Luke 1:17
And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.
Malachi 4:5
See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.
Malachi 4:6
And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.
Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;
Luke 7:26
But what did you go out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
Luke 7:27
This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.
Matthew 11:10
This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.
Matthew 11:14
And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come.
Matthew 17:11
And in answer he said, Elijah truly has to come and put all things right:
Matthew 17:12
But I say to you that Elijah has come, and they had no knowledge of him, but did to him whatever they were pleased to do; the same will the Son of man undergo at their hands.
Mark 9:11
And they put a question to him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?
Mark 9:12
And he said to them, Truly, Elijah does come first, and puts all things in order; and how is it said in the Writings that the Son of man will go through much sorrow and be made as nothing?
Mark 9:13
But I say to you that Elijah has come, and they have done to him whatever they were pleased to do, even as the Writings say about him.
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Luke 3:5
Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;
Luke 3:6
And all flesh will see the salvation of God.
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John 1:12
To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:
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Genesis 18:19
For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.
Hosea 14:9
He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.
Acts 13:10
O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?
Acts 18:25
This man had been trained in the way of the Lord; and burning in spirit, he gave himself up to teaching the facts about Jesus, though he had knowledge only of John's baptism:
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John 1:13
Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
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Luke 7:24
And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?
Revelation 20:4
And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years.
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