This is the one about whom it is written: “ ‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’
A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty.
as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way”—
And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’ ”