All this happened for the fulfilment of what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

They told him, "In Bethlehem belonging to Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet:

where he stayed until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had said by the prophet: I called my Son from Egypt.

Then the saying was fulfilled which had been uttered by the prophet Jeremiah:

(This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.')

for the fulfilment of what had been said by the prophet Isaiah:

Now when evening came they brought him many demoniacs, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all the invalids ??17 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, He took away our sicknesses and he removed our diseases.

He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward; he who receives a good man because he is good, will receive a good man's reward.

Come, why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet.

charging them strictly not to make him known ??17 it was for the fulfilment of what had been said by the prophet Isaiah,

He replied to them, "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of the prophet Jonah;

Jesus said all this to the crowds in parables; he never spoke to them except in a parable ??35 to fulfil what had been said by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will speak out what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.

So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home."

He was anxious to kill him but he was afraid of the people, for they held John to be a prophet.

What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

This took place for the fulfilment of what had been spoken by the prophet,

and the crowds replied, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazaret in Galilee!"

And if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet."

they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the crowds, as the crowds held him to be a prophet.

So when you see the appalling Horror spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing erect in the holy place (let the reader note this),

Then the word spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: and I took the thirty silver pieces, the price of him who had been priced, whom they had priced and expelled from the sons of Israel;

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you:

Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and among his kinsfolk and in his home."

others said, "It is Elijah," others again, "It is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."

What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul?

No, let us say, From men" ??but they were afraid of the multitude, for the people all held John had been really a prophet.

And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,

and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins ??4 as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.

and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah; on opening the book he came upon the place where it was written,

He added, "I tell you truly, no prophet is ever welcome in his native place.

And in Israel there were many lepers in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of these was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."

All were seized with awe and glorified God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said, "God has visited his people."

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

When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem!

And if we say, 'From men,' the whole of the people will stone us, for they are convinced John was a prophet."

"What is that?" he said to them. They replied, "All about Jesus of Nazaret! To God and all the people he was a prophet strong in action and utterance,

They asked him, "Then what are you? Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered.

He said, "I am the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'level the way for the Lord' ??as the prophet Isaiah said."

so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

"Sir," said the woman, "I see you are a prophet.

I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

(for Jesus himself testified that a prophet enjoys no honour in his own country);

Now when the people saw the Sign he had performed, they said, "This really is the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

On hearing this some of the people said, "This really is the Prophet";

They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee."

So they asked the blind man once more, "What have you to say about him, for opening your eyes?" The man replied, "I say he is a prophet."

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel ??17 In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams:

(He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne;

for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.

Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People;

(This was the Moses who told the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me.')

And yet the most High does not dwell in houses made by hands. As the prophet says,

and was on his way home. He was sitting in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah.

When Philip ran up, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. "Do you really understand what you are reading?"

So the eunuch said to Philip, "Pray, who is the prophet speaking about? Is it himself or someone else?"

They covered the whole island as far as Paphos, where they fell in with a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet called Bar-Jesus;

After that he gave them judges, down to the prophet Samuel.

Now it happened as we went to the place of prayer that a slave-girl met us, possessed by a spirit of ventriloquism, and a source of great profit to her owners by her power of fortune-telling.

But when her owners saw their chance of profit was gone, they caught hold of Paul and Silas and dragged them before the magistrates in the forum.

By making silver shrines of Artemis a silversmith called Demetrius was the means of bringing rich profit to his workmen.

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet called Agabus came down from Judaea.

As they could not agree among themselves, they were turning to go away, when Paul added this one word: "It was an apt word that the holy Spirit spoke by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

If anyone considers himself a prophet or gifted with the Spirit, let him understand that what I write to you is a command of the Lord.

Brothers, when we were bereft of you for a little while (out of sight, not out of mind), we were the more eager to see you. We had a keen longing for you.

It has been said by one of themselves, by a prophet of their own, that ??"Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly instead of being pressed to it, not to make a base profit from it but freely,

they have gone wrong by leaving the straight road, by following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who liked the profits of evil-doing ??16 but he got reproved for his malpractice: a dumb ass spoke with human voice and checked the prophet's infatuation.

Then I saw issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the Beast and from the mouth of the false Prophet, three foul spirits like frogs ??14 demon-spirits performing miracles, who come out to muster the kings of the whole world for battle on the great Day of almighty God.

They threw dust on their heads and cried, as they wept and wailed, 'Woe and alas for the great City, where all shipmen made rich profit by her treasures! Gone, gone in one brief hour!'

But the Beast was seized, together with the false Prophet who had performed in his presence the miracles by means of which he seduced those who received the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue; both of them were flung alive into the lake of fire that blazes with brimstone,

and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.