John The Baptist

Verily I say to you, there hath not risen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the reign of the heavens is greater than he.

A voice is crying--in a wilderness--Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.

And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea, — read the full passage →

Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts.

and the messenger said unto him, `Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John, — read the full passage →

And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,

and many came unto him, and said--`John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'

for this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths.'

And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' --`The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent out of Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they might question him, `Who art thou?' — read the full passage →

John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation--to remission of sins,

Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.

and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'

And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field.

`Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

for I say to you, a greater prophet, among those born of women, than John the Baptist there is not; but the least in the reign of God is greater than he.'

And Jesus answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things, — read the full passage →

He said, `I <FI>am<Fi> a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'

A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God. — read the full passage →

and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him, — read the full passage →

and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful. — read the full passage →

And to Elisabeth was the time fulfilled for her bringing forth, and she bare a son, — read the full passage →

And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said--`John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

`A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee--unto him ye hearken;

At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus, — read the full passage →

for this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus,

and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing; — read the full passage →

There came a man--having been sent from God--whose name <FI>is<Fi> John, — read the full passage →

And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.

But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfil all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.

`I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath? — read the full passage →

A voice is crying--in a wilderness--Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God. — read the full passage →

`For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;

As it hath been written in the prophets, `Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' --

for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last--to believe him.

But if we may say, From men,' --they were fearing the people, for all were holding John that he was indeed a prophet;

For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus, — read the full passage →

as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths; — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Jesus ended directing his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. — read the full passage →

John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals--he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth; — read the full passage →

And she having been instigated by her mother--`Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

Then were going forth unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan, — read the full passage →

and the messenger said unto him, `Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,

And he went forth thence, and came to his own country, and his disciples do follow him, — read the full passage →

And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and say to him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples do not fast?'

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him, — read the full passage →

And in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar--Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene--

said to him, `Art thou He who is coming, or for another do we look?'

`I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, — read the full passage →

And Paul said, `John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe--that is, in the Christ--Jesus;'

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; — read the full passage →

And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'

for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.

and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have--Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father--Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation--to remission of sins,

and many of the sons of Israel he shall turn to the Lord their God, — read the full passage →

And they answered, `John the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others one of the prophets.'

As it hath been written in the prophets, `Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' -- — read the full passage →

From that time began Jesus to proclaim and to say, `Reform ye, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens.'

And when he completed all his sayings in the ears of the people, he went into Capernaum; — read the full passage →

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth;

a prophet I raise up to them, out of the midst of their brethren, like to thee; and I have given my words in his mouth, and he hath spoken unto them all that which I command him;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, `What, then, shall we do?' — read the full passage →

And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,

`A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' --

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world; — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, `Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.'

And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure sicknesses, — read the full passage →

And having come near to him, the men said, `John the Baptist sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he who is coming, or for another do we look?'

And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened, — read the full passage →

And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways. — read the full passage →

for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

Then understood the disciples that concerning John the Baptist he spake to them.

And in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar--Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene-- — read the full passage →

and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.'

And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways. — read the full passage →

And John having heard in the prison the works of the Christ, having sent two of his disciples, — read the full passage →

And they answering said, `John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;'

and I say to you--Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.'

In those days the multitude being very great, and not having what they may eat, Jesus having called near his disciples, saith to them, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation--to remission of sins, — read the full passage →

to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,