Malachi 3:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.

¹⁵ And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day, ¹⁶ The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

²⁰ See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

¹⁴ For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.

⁶ For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.

³ A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God. ⁴ Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley, ⁵ And the glory of the Lord will be made clear, and all flesh will see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it.

⁹ It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

³ In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God; ⁴ He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him; ⁵ Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.

⁷ And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies. ⁸ The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies. ⁹ The second glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of armies.

⁷ For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

⁵ See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.

¹ And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea, ² Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near. ³ For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

¹⁰ This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. ¹¹ Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

¹⁰ And his disciples, questioning him, said, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first? ¹¹ And in answer he said, Elijah truly has to come and put all things right: ¹² But I say to you that Elijah has come, and they had no knowledge of him, but did to him whatever they were pleased to do; the same will the Son of man undergo at their hands. ¹³ Then the disciples saw that he was talking to them of John the Baptist.

² Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way; ³ The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;

¹⁶ And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

⁷⁶ And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;

¹¹ For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.

²¹ And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth. ²² And when the necessary days for making them clean by the law of Moses had come to an end, they took him to Jerusalem to give him to the Lord ²³ As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord, ²⁴ And to make an offering, as it is ordered in the law of the Lord, of two doves or other young birds. ²⁵ And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him. ²⁶ And he had knowledge, through the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ. ²⁷ And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law, ²⁸ Then he took him in his arms and gave praise to God and said, ²⁹ Now you are letting your servant go in peace, O Lord, as you have said; ³⁰ For my eyes have seen your salvation, ³¹ Which you have made ready before the face of all nations; ³² A light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.

³⁸ And coming up at that time, she gave praise to God, talking of him to all those who were waiting for the freeing of Jerusalem.

⁴⁶ And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them.

³ And he came into all the country round about Jordan, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed. ⁴ As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight. ⁵ Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth; ⁶ And all flesh will see the salvation of God.

¹⁹ Then John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another? ²⁰ And when the men came to him they said, John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?

²⁶ But what did you go out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. ²⁷ This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. ²⁸ I say to you, Among all the sons of women, not one is greater than John: but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

⁴⁷ And every day he was teaching in the Temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people were attempting to put him to death;

⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ He came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have faith through him.

¹⁵ John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me. ¹⁶ From his full measure we have all been given grace on grace. ¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is. ¹⁹ And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you? ²⁰ He said quite openly and straightforwardly, I am not the Christ. ²¹ And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not. ²² So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself? ²³ He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

³³ I had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit. ³⁴ This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.

¹⁴ And there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats: ¹⁵ And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables; ¹⁶ And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.

²⁸ You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ. ²⁹ He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete. ³⁰ He has to become greater while I become less.

³⁸ This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

²⁴ For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart. ²⁵ And when John was completing his work, he said, What do I seem to you to be? I am not he; but one is coming after me, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.

⁴ And Paul said, John gave a baptism which goes with a change of heart, saying to the people that they were to have faith in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.