Luke 1:16 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

¹⁶ And many of the children of Israel shall be turn unto the Lord their God.

³ Hark! one calleth: 'Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the LORD, make plain in the desert a highway for our God. ⁴ Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the rugged shall be made level, and the rough places a plain; ⁵ And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.'

⁶ Yea, He saith: 'It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the offspring of Israel; I will also give thee for a light of the nations, that My salvation may be unto the end of the earth.'

³ And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn the many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

¹ Behold, I send My messenger, and he shall clear the way before Me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to His temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, he cometh, saith the LORD of hosts.

¹ And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, ² and saying, Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ³ For this is he that was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight. ⁴ Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan, ⁶ and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

³² For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not, but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye saw it, did not even repent yourselves afterward, that ye might believe him.

⁷⁶ Yea and thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,