And so 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 the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight!

And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll he found the place where it was written,

And he said, "Truly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable in his [own] hometown.

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was made clean except Naaman the Syrian."

And fear seized [them] all, and they began to glorify God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has visited to help his people!"

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

Now [when] the Pharisee who invited him saw [this], he spoke to himself, saying, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman [this is] who is touching him, that she is a sinner."

and by some that Elijah had appeared, and others that some prophet of ancient times had risen.

Nevertheless, it is necessary [for] me to be on the way today and tomorrow and on the next [day], because it is not possible [for] a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.

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 said to them, "What [things]?" So they said to him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people,