But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name John.

And his mother answered [and] said, "No, but he will be named John."

and he asked for a writing tablet [and] wrote, saying, "John is his name." And they were all astonished.

in the time of the high priest Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

And [while] the people were waiting expectantly and all were pondering in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he might be the Christ,

John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but the one who is more powerful than I [am] is coming, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

added this also to them all: he also locked up John in prison.

and so also [were] James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were business partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid! From now on you will be catching people!"

And they said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and make prayers--likewise also the [disciples] of the Pharisees--but yours are eating and drinking!"

Simon (whom he also named Peter) and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,

And his disciples reported to John about all these [things]. And summoning a certain two of his disciples, John

And [when] the men came to him, they said, "John the Baptist sent us to you, saying, 'Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?'"

And he answered [and] said to them, "Go [and] tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear; the dead are raised, the poor have good news announced to [them].

And [when] the messengers of John had departed, he began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

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

(And all the people, [when they] heard [this]--even the tax collectors--affirmed the righteousness of God, [because they] had been baptized [with] the baptism of John,

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

Now [when he] came to the house, he did not allow anyone to enter with him except Peter and John and James and the father and mother of the child.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John has been raised from the dead,

And Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" And he was wanting to see him.

And they answered [and] said, "John the Baptist, but others, Elijah, and others, that one of the ancient prophets has risen."

Now it happened that about eight days after these words, he took along Peter and John and James [and] went up on the mountain to pray.

And John answered [and] said, "Master, we saw someone expelling demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him, because he does not follow in company with us."

Now [when] the disciples James and John saw [it], they said, "Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

And it happened that while he was in a certain place praying, when he stopped a certain 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; from that time [on] the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently pressed into it.

The baptism of John--was [it] from heaven or from men?

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced [that] John was a prophet."

And he sent Peter and John, saying, "Go [and] prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat [it].