And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare his ways,

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And he opened the book, and found the place where it was written:

Then he said, "Truly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha; and not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."

Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us;" and "God has visited his people."

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

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner."

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?

Nevertheless I must journey today and tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."

And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,