Luke 1:16

The Prediction Of John The Baptist's Birth

¹⁵ For he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and fermented liquor he should not drink; and with the Holy Spirit shall he be filled, even from his mother's womb. ¹⁶ And many of the sons of Israel shall he turn back to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ And he shall come before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the intelligence of the just; to prepare a people having been put in order for the Lord.

Children of Israel

People of Israel

Sons of Israel

To the Lord

Turn to the Lord

Turned to the Lord

Israel

Israelites

Luke

Sin

Isaiah 40:3-5

The voice of him calling in the desert, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the sterile region a highway for our God.

Isaiah 49:6

And he will say, It was light thou being to me a servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to turn back the preserved of Israel: and I gave thee for a light of the nations to be my salvation even to the extremity of the earth.

Daniel 12:3

And those understanding shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those justifying many, as the stars forever and ever.

Malachi 3:1

Behold me sending my messenger, and he looked upon the way before my face: and suddenly Jehovah whom ye seek shall come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in: behold him coming, said Jehovah of armies.

Matthew 3:1-6

In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert of Judea;

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him.

Luke 1:76

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;