Luke 7:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ This is the one about whom it is written, ‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ This is the one of whom it is written, Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall make ready Your way before You. [Mal. 3:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Common English Bible

²⁷ He is the one of whom it’s written:Look, I’m sending my messenger before you, who will prepare your way before you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ This is he of whom it is written: "Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Luke 7:27 Cross References

Isaiah 40:3

A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Malachi 3:1

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 11:10

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

Mark 1:2

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

Luke 7:26

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

Luke 7:28

“I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John, yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

John 1:23

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