And thou, child, shalt be a prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways,

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

And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Isaiah, and having opened the book,

And he said, Verily I say to you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country.

And many lepers were in Israel, in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet none of them was healed, but Naaman the Syrian.

And fear seized all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet is risen up among us; and, God hath visited his people.

But what went ye out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and much more than a prophet.

For I say to you, among those that are born of women, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; but he that is least in the kingdom of God, is greater than he.

But the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known, who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him; for she is a sinner.

But I must go on to day, and to morrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

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