And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.

To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'

as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, 'A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths;

every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straightness, and the rough become smooth ways;

and not having found by what way they may bring him in because of the multitude, having gone up on the house-top, through the tiles they let him down, with the little couch, into the midst before Jesus,

this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;

'The sower went forth to sow his seed, and in his sowing some indeed fell beside the way, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the heaven did devour it.

and those beside the way are those hearing, then cometh the Devil, and taketh up the word from their heart, lest having believed, they may be saved.

And he said unto them, 'Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats each;

And it came to pass, as they are going on in the way, a certain one said unto him, 'I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go, sir;'

carry no bag, no scrip, nor sandals; and salute no one on the way;

'And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side;

seeing a friend of mine came out of the way unto me, and I have not what I shall set before him,

for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison;

'And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;

and if not so -- he being yet a long way off -- having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.

And it came to pass, in his coming nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting beside the way begging,

and having run forward before, he went up on a sycamore, that he may see him, because through that way he was about to pass by.

And as he is going, they were spreading their garments in the way,

and they questioned him, saying, 'Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;

And they said one to another, 'Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'

and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,