Luke 3:4

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

In Context

3And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the immersion of repentance in order to the remission of sins;

5every ravine shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made level; and the crooked ways shall be made straight; and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

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Cross References

Mark 1:3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Luke 1:76And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High; for you shall go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways,

John 1:23He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord; as said the prophet Isaiah.

John 3:28You yourselves will testify for me, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

Matthew Henry on Luke 3:2-15

Ministry of John the Baptist. 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4 As it is… Read the whole commentary →

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