"He shall go before Him in the wisdom and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and so to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

As it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah. The voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare the way for God, make straight paths for him.

Another time when he was in one of their cities, there was a man there full of leprosy. And he, upon seeing Jesus, fell on his face and implored him. "Lord," he said, "if only you choose you can make me clean."

And instantly the leprosy left him. Jesus ordered him to tell no one, "But be off," he said, "show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."

Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?"

"Can you make the bridal party fast," he asked, while the bridegroom is still with them?

(For there were about five thousand men.) "Make them sit down in table-companies, of about fifty each," he said to his disciples.

And when they were preparing to depart from him Peter said to Jesus. "Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"??ot knowing what he was saying.

and sent messengers before him. These went and entered into a Samaritan village to make ready for him.

"Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

"Happy are those slaves whom their master shall find watching when he comes. I tell you truly that will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and come and serve them.

"Do you think that I am come to make peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather dissension.

"But when you make a reception, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

"Said the master to his slave. 'Go out into the roads and the hedges, and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

"'"I am no more worthy to be called your son; only make me like one of your hired men."'

"'Bring that fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry,

"So they began to make merry. But his elder son was in the field, and as he drew near to the house he heard music and dancing,

"'All these years I have been slaving for you and never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you never gave me even a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

"'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

"And to you I say, Use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make yourselves friends, so that when it shall fail they will welcome you to the eternal tabernacles.

Until I make thy enemies the footstool at thy feet.

"but they devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive severer condemnation."

"Then he will show you a large upper room furnished. There make your preparations."