Luke 3:4

as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths strait:

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 into all the country on the confines of Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

5every valley shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be levelled, and the crooked ways made strait, and the rough roads smooth:

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Cross References

Mark 1:3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths strait.”

Luke 1:76And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High; for thou shalt 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 for the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.

John 3:28Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Messiah, but that I am 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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