And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest, for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

as it is written in the book of the Words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth.

And not finding a way by which they might bring him in through the crowd, going up on the housetop, they let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst, before Jesus.

This is he of whom it is written, "Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You."

Return to your own house and declare what God has done to you. And he went his way and proclaimed throughout all the city what great things Jesus had done to him.

And it happened as they were going in the way, one said to Him, Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.

Carry neither purse nor bag nor sandals. And greet no one by the way.

And by coincidence a certain priest came down that way and seeing him, he passed by on the opposite side.

And in the same way a Levite, also being at the place, coming and seeing him, he passed on the opposite side.

For as you go with your adversary to the judge, give pains in the way to be set free from him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into the prison.

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! the one killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her; how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen gathers her brood under the wings, and you did not desire it.

Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.

And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.

Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no way enter into it.

And he ran in front and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him. For He was to pass through that way.

And as He went, they spread their clothes in the way.

And they watched and sent forth spies, pretending themselves to be righteous men, so that they might seize upon a word of His, that they might deliver Him in this way to the power and authority of the governor.

And they asked Him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly, and do not accept the person of anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

In the same way He took the cup, after having dined, saying, This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is being poured out for you.

And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way and while He opened the Scriptures to us?

And in the way they related the things happening, and how He had been known by them in breaking of the loaf.