Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way.

But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.

Jesus answered, to such hypocrites as you may well be applied those words of the prophet Esaias, "this people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

‘They worship Me in vain [their worship is meaningless and worthless, a pretense],
Teaching the precepts of men as doctrines [giving their traditions equal weight with the Scriptures].’

But ye say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by ...

And they answered Him, " [Some say] you are John the Immerser; others say [the prophet] Elijah, but others say [you are] one of the prophets."

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.

But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Thereupon some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, while striking Him with their fists and crying, "Prove that you are a prophet." The officers too struck Him with open hands as they took Him in charge.