Luke 20:4

“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.’

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.

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,

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

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

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

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

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?’

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

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

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

neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

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.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

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

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