But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

But his mother made answer and said, No, his name is John.

And he sent for writing materials and put down: His name is John; and they were all surprised.

When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.

And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,

John made answer, saying to them all, Truly, I give you baptism with water, but one is coming who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:

But Herod the king, because John had made a protest on account of Herodias, his brother's wife, and other evil things which Herod had done,

Did this most evil thing of all, and had John shut up in prison.

And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.

And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.

Simon, to whom he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew, his brother, and James and John and Philip and Bartholomew

And the disciples of John gave him an account of all these things.

Then John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?

And when the men came to him they said, John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?

And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

I say to you, Among all the sons of women, not one is greater than John: but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

(And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.

For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.

And when he came to the house he did not let any man go in with him, but only Peter and John and James, and the father of the girl and her mother.

Now Herod the king had news of all these things: and he was in doubt, because it was said by some people that John had come back from the dead;

And Herod said, I put John to death: but who is this, of whom such stories are given to me? And he had a desire to see him.

And they, answering, said, John the Baptist; but others say Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has come back.

And about eight days after he had said these things, he took Peter and John and James with him and went up into the mountain for prayer.

And John, answering, said, Master, we saw a man driving out evil spirits in your name, and we did not let him do it, because he was not one of us.

And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, may we send fire from heaven and put an end to them?

And it came about that he was in prayer in a certain place, and when he came to an end, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, will you give us teaching about prayer, as John did to his disciples?

The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.

The baptism of John, was it from heaven or of men?

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

And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make the Passover ready for us, so that we may take it.