Luke 3:4

as it has been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD, || Make His paths straight;

Literal Standard Version

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 to all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming an immersion of conversion for forgiveness of sins,

5Every valley will be filled, || And every mountain and hill will be made low, || And the crooked will become straightness, || And the rough become smooth ways;

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Cross References

Isaiah 57:14And He has said, “Raise up, raise up, prepare a way, || Lift a stumbling-block out of the way of My people.”

Malachi 4:6And he has turned back the heart of fathers to sons, || And the heart of sons to their fathers, || Before I come and have utterly struck the land!”

Mark 1:3A voice of one calling in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD, || Make His paths straight.”

Luke 1:76And you, child, || Prophet of the Highest will you be called; For you will go before the face of the LORD, || To prepare His ways.

John 1:23He said, “I [am] a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the LORD, as Isaiah the prophet said.”

John 3:28you yourselves testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am having 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 →

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