Luke 3:4
As Isaiah the prophet wrote: “A voice was heard crying out in the desert, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.
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Isaiah 57:14He will say, Build a highway, remove anything that's in the way of my people.
Malachi 4:6He will restore harmony between parents and children, and if that does not happen, I will come and strike the land with a curse.
Mark 1:3A voice is calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the Lord's way! Make his paths straight.’”
Luke 1:76Even though you are only a small child, you will be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go ahead of the Lord to prepare his way,
John 1:23“I am a voice calling in the desert, ‘Make the Lord's way straight!’” he said, using the words of the prophet Isaiah.
John 3:28“You yourselves can testify that I declared, ‘I'm not the Messiah. I've been sent to prepare his way.’
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 →