Luke 1:76

Zechariah prophesies that his son John will be the prophet who prepares the way for the Lord. It matters because John's mission points directly to the coming Messiah.

Cross-references · 22

• Mal 3:1“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Isa 40:3–5The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
• Mark 1:2–3As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:
• Matt 14:5When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
• Matt 3:3For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.”
• Matt 11:9–10But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
• John 1:23He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
• Acts 16:17Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”
• Luke 1:32He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,
• Mark 11:32If we should say, ‘From men’” — they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.
• Luke 1:35The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
• John 3:28You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
• Ps 87:5Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her.
• Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
• Luke 1:16–17He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.
• Matt 21:26But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”
• Matt 3:11I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
• Luke 7:27–28This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
• Acts 13:24–25before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
• Luke 3:4–6As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.
• John 1:27He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
• Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

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