John 1:23

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

“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.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!

I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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!”

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

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

He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Christ.”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

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.”

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

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

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’ ”

He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.

Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

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

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

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.”

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 said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

“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.”

Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.

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

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

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.

The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

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

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

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,

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

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

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

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.