he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God,
For John showed you the way to be good and you would not believe him; the taxgatherers and harlots believed him, and even though you saw that, you would not change your mind afterwards and believe him.
And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,
and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins —