But the angel said to him:

Do not be afraid, Zechariah,
because your prayer has been heard.
Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son,
and you will name him John.

But his mother responded, “No! He will be called John.”

He asked for a writing tablet and wrote:

HIS NAME IS JOHN.

And they were all amazed.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, God’s word came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were debating in their minds whether John might be the Messiah.

John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but One is coming who is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to untie the strap of His sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

added this to everything else—he locked John up in prison.

and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s partners.

“Don’t be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people!”

Then they said to Him, “John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”

Simon, whom He also named Peter,
and Andrew his brother;
James and John;
Philip and Bartholomew;

Then John’s disciples told him about all these things. So John summoned two of his disciples

When the men reached Him, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask You, ‘Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?’”

He replied to them, “Go and report to John the things you have seen and heard: The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with skin diseases are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news.

After John’s messengers left, He began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John, but the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God’s way of righteousness, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

For John the Baptist did not come eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

After He came to the house, He let no one enter with Him except Peter, John, James, and the child’s father and mother.

Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was going on. He was perplexed, because some said that John had been raised from the dead,

“I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this I hear such things about?” And he wanted to see Him.

They answered, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, that one of the ancient prophets has come back.”

About eight days after these words, He took along Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

John responded, “Master, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he does not follow us.”

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

He was praying in a certain place, and when He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is strongly urged to enter it.

was the baptism of John from heaven or from men?”

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us, so we can eat it.”