Luke 3:4
just as it has been written in the book of the sermons of the prophet Isaiah: “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord. Make straight his paths.
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Isaiah 57:14And I will say: “Make way! Grant passage! Move to the side of the path! Take the obstacles out of the way of my people!”
Malachi 4:6And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with anathema.
Mark 1:3The voice of one crying out in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.”
Luke 1:76And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the face of the Lord: to prepare his ways,
John 1:23He said, “I am a voice crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”
John 3:28You yourselves offer testimony for me that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but that I have been 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 →