John 1:6

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

“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.

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.”

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.

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

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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.

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

His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”

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,

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

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

Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

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.

But why 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.’

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

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

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.’

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

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

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

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

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

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,

He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.” They all marveled.

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,

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.

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.”

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 his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

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 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.

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

There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

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

He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

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.

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.

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

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!”

and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

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?’

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’

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.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

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

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

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

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

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

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

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.

I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

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

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.’ ”

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?