Luke 3:4

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, 1 “A voice of one calling out in the wilderness, 1 'Make ready the way of the Lord, 1 make his paths straight. 1

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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

3He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

5Every valley will be filled, 1 and every mountain and hill will be made low, 1 and the crooked roads will be made straight, 1 and the uneven places will be built into roads, 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 57:14He will say, 1 'Build, build! Clear a way! Remove all the stumbling blocks from the path of my people!'” 1

Malachi 4:6He will turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, so that I do not come and attack the land with complete destruction.”

Mark 1:3The voice of one calling out in the wilderness, 1 'Make ready the way of the Lord; 1 make his paths straight.'”

Luke 1:76Yes, and you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, 1 for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his paths, 1 to prepare people for his coming, 1

John 1:23He said, 1 “I am a voice, crying in the wilderness: 1 'Make the way of the Lord straight,' just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

John 3:28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but instead, '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 →

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