Luke 3:4

as it-has-been-written in to{scroll} of{words} of{Isaiah, the prophet, saying}, "Sound of{crying} in to{the desolate}, prepare the way of{[the] Lord}, be-making straight the paths of{same}.

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

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-comes into all the region-around of{the Jordan}, proclaiming immerse-effect of{change-of-mind/thinking} into let-off/away-sis[i.e. state of release] of{sins},

5Every ravine will-be-filled-full and every mountain and hill will-be-lowered, and the crooked will-be into straight, and the rough into smooth ways,

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Cross References

Mark 1:3[The] sound of{crying} in to{the desolate}; prepare the way of{[the] Lord}, be-making straight the paths of{same}."

Luke 1:76and you, childling, prophet of{highest}, will-be-called, for you-will-be-gone-before before of{face} of{[the] Lord} to-prepare [the] ways of{same},

John 1:23He-has-been-asserting, "I, 'Sound of{crying} in to{the desolate}. Straighten the way of{[the] Lord},'["] according-as Isaiah the prophet says,["]

John 3:28The-same[masculine plural] you[plural] are-witnessing to{me} that I-say I am_not_being the Anointed; contrariwise, that I-am-being having-been-sent-off/away in-front of{the-there}.

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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