And his father, Zacharias, was full of the Holy Spirit, and with the voice of a prophet said these words:

And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;

And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life

As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.

And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian.

And fear came on all, and they gave praise to God, saying, A great prophet is among us: and, God has given thought to his people.

But what did you go out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.

Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.

For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem.

In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.

But if we say, Of men; we will be stoned by the people, for they are certain that John was a prophet.

And, covering his eyes, they said to him, Are you prophet enough to say who gave you that blow?

And he said to them, What things? And they said, The things to do with Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, great in his acts and his words, before God and all the people: