Luke 1:80
The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
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Luke 1:80
The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
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Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.
Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
Genesis 39:3
His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
Genesis 39:21
But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Judges 6:12
Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
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Exodus 5:3
They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
Mark 6:32
They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
Luke 4:42
When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.
Luke 9:10
The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them and withdrew apart to a desert region of a city called Bethsaida.
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Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
Luke 2:41
His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
Luke 2:42
When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast;
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Judges 13:2
There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
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1 Samuel 2:18
But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 3:20
All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
1 Samuel 16:18
Then one of the young men answered and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”
1 Kings 18:46
Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Psalms 80:17
Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
Psalms 89:21
with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.
Luke 1:66
All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.
Acts 11:21
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
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1 Samuel 23:14
David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.
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2 Samuel 15:23
All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.
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2 Samuel 16:2
The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
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2 Kings 2:8
Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters; and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.
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Song of Solomon 3:6
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
Revelation 8:1
When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
Revelation 8:2
I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Revelation 8:3
Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
Revelation 8:4
The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
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Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Matthew 3:5
Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
Matthew 3:13
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
Matthew 11:11
Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
Mark 1:5
All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
Luke 1:17
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
Luke 1:60
His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”
Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
Luke 7:24
When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
John 1:6
There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.
John 1:19
This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
John 1:29
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 3:26
They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”
Colossians 1:19
For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,
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Matthew 3:14
But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”
Matthew 4:12
Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.
Matthew 11:2
Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
Matthew 11:14
If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
Matthew 14:3
For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.
Matthew 14:10
and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.
Mark 1:14
Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,
Mark 6:29
When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse and laid it in a tomb.
Luke 1:57
Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son.
Luke 1:77
to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,
Luke 3:19
but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
John 1:15
John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’ ”
John 1:30
This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’
John 5:33
You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
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Luke 1:5
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
Luke 1:21
The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.
Luke 1:22
When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.
Luke 1:23
When the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house.
Luke 1:25
“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
Luke 1:39
Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,
Luke 1:62
They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.
Luke 1:65
Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.
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Luke 1:74
to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
Luke 1:75
in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
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Hosea 11:1
“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Luke 2:39
When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
Luke 2:51
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
John 1:46
Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
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Luke 5:16
But he withdrew himself into the desert and prayed.
Luke 8:29
For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
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Proverbs 3:3
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Luke 2:20
The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
Luke 4:13
When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
Acts 2:47
praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
Romans 14:18
For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
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Luke 1:18
Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”
Romans 4:19
Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
Romans 4:20
Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
2 Timothy 2:1
You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
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