"And thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Most High, For thou shalt go before the Lord to prepare the way

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.

He went on board one of the boats which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little way from land. Then he sat down and continued to teach the crowd from the boat.

So he answered them. "Go your way, tell John what you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings.

"Yes, I tell you and more than a prophet. This is he who it is written. "Behold I send a messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.

"And that which fell upon thorns is those who have heard, but as they go on their way of word is choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life; so they bring no fruit of perfection.

As they were going on their way, a man came to him and said, "I will follow wherever you go."

"Go your way; behold, I am sending you forth like lambs among wolves.

"Now a certain priest chanced to be going down that way, but on seeing him he passed on the other side.

"The next day he took two silver pieces and gave them to the landlord and said, "'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will repay it to you on my way back.'

It happened as they went on their way that he entered into a certain village were a woman named Martha received him into her house.

So he went on his way through cities and villages,

"The second said: 'I have bought five yolk of oxen and am on my way to try them. I pray that you will have me excused.'

"If he cannot, while the other king is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy to ask conditions of peace.

"So he arose and went to his father; but while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

"'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.

Now it happened that as he went his way to Jerusalem, he passed between Samaria and Galilee.

Then he took the twelve aside and told them. "See, we are on our way to Jerusalem, and all prophets regarding the son of Man will be fulfilled.

So he ran on before him and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him; for he was about to pass that way.

So he rode on, while they kept throwing their garments in the way.

So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly.

"The Son of man indeed goes on his way, as it has been determined; but woe to that man by who he is betrayed."

So they seized him and led him away, and took him to the house of the high priest; while Peter was following him a long way off.

"Were not our hearts burning within us," they said to each other, "while we were talking with him on the way, and he was opening to us the scriptures?"