Matthew 3:1

Matthew 3:1
And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,

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Joshua 14:10
And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.

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?

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2 Samuel 15:23
And there was great weeping in all the country when all the people went through; and the king himself was waiting in the Kidron valley and all the people went by him in the direction of the olive-tree on the edge of the waste land.

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2 Samuel 16:2
And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.

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Job 24:5
Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

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Isaiah 35:8
And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

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.

Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

Matthew 3:8
Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

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.

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.

Acts 13:24
For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

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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Hosea 2:14
For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

Revelation 12:6
And the woman went in flight to the waste land, where she has a place made ready by God, so that there they may give her food a thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

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Zechariah 13:1
In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.

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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.

Matthew 11:12
And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it.

Matthew 11:13
For all the prophets and the law were in force till John.

Matthew 11:14
And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come.

Matthew 16:14
And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

Luke 1:16
And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.

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;

John 1:6
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

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Matthew 4:12
Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;

Matthew 4:23
And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people.

Matthew 11:2
Now when John had news in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples

Mark 1:14
Now after John had been put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the good news of God,

Mark 6:14
And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.

Mark 6:24
And she went out and said to her mother, What is my request to be? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

Luke 1:57
Now it was time for Elisabeth to give birth, and she had a son.

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Mark 5:20
And he went on his way, and made public in the country of Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him: and all men were full of wonder.

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Luke 1:36
Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.

Luke 1:40
And went into the house of Zacharias and took Elisabeth in her arms.

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Acts 21:38
Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?

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