Matthew 3:3

Modern English Version

For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.’ ”

Cross References

Isaiah 40:3

The voice of him who cries out, “Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Malachi 3:1

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, even the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. He is coming, says the Lord of Hosts.

Mark 1:3

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.’ ”

Luke 1:17

And 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 make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Luke 1:76

“And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; for you will go before the presence of the Lord to prepare His ways,

John 1:23

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