Matthew 3:3

New American Standard Bible 2020

For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said, “The voice of one calling out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, Make His paths straight!’ ”

Cross References

Isaiah 40:3

¶The voice of one calling out, “Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Malachi 3:1

“Behold, I am sending My messenger, and he will clear a way before Me. And the Lord, whom you are seeking, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of armies.

Mark 1:3

The voice of one calling out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, Make His paths straight!’ ”

Luke 1:17

And it is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers back to their children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Luke 1:76

“And you, child, also will be called the prophet of the Most High; For you will go on before the Lord to prepare His ways;

John 1:23

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