Acts 13:24

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

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

You are witnesses of these things.

I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

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

This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.

Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;” the Most High himself will establish her.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

If we should say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.

He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”

The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”