Malachi 3:1

God promises to send a messenger to prepare His way, after which the Lord and the messenger of the covenant will suddenly come to His temple.

Cross-references · 33

• Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
• Luke 1:76And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
• 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:
• Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Matt 11:10–11For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
• Luke 7:26–28But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
• Mal 2:7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
• Acts 19:4Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
• 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.
• John 1:6–7There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
• Matt 17:10–13His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
• Exod 23:20“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
• Luke 1:16–17He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.
• Matt 3:1–3In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
• Ps 110:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
• Hag 2:7–9and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.
• Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
• Acts 7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
• Luke 19:47He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
• Luke 3:3–6He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
• Luke 2:21–32When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
• John 1:15–23John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”
• Isa 9:6For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• John 1:33–34I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’
• Luke 2:46After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.
• Luke 2:11For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
• Luke 7:19–20John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?”
• Hos 12:3–5In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.
• Acts 13:24–25before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
• John 3:28–30You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
• John 2:14–16He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
• Gen 48:15–16He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
• Luke 2:38Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

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