TSK · Luke 1:76

But it is said of Zion’s residents,“Each one of these was born in her, and the Most High makes her secure.”

“I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

For he is the one about whom the prophet Isaiah had spoken:“The voice of one shouting in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet!

But if we say,‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”

But if we say,‘From people–’”(they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).

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

As it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,“The voice of one shouting in the wilderness:‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.

This is the one about whom it is written,‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!”

Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.