John 1:31

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.

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

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

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

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.”

If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

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

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with 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,

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.

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.”

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

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

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

I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

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!”

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

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

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

John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

(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);

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

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 as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

“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.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’ ”

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 John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

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.”

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

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