Luke 7:27
Good News Translation
For John is the one of whom the scripture says: 'God said, I will send my messenger ahead of you to open the way for you.'

New Revised Standard Version
This is the one about whom it is written, ‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

Contemporary English Version
In the Scriptures, God calls John his messenger and says, "I am sending my messenger ahead of you to get things ready for you."

New American Bible
This is the one about whom scripture says: ‘Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, he will prepare your way before you.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Behold.

Luke 1:15-17,76 For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. . . .

Isaiah 40:3 The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.

Malachi 3:1 Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold, he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 4:5,6 Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. . . .

John 1:23 He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.

Context
Jesus Testifies about John
26But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet. 27This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. 28For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of men, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser in the kingdom of God is greater than he.…
Cross References
Malachi 3:1
Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold, he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 11:10
For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before my face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Mark 1:2
As it is written in Isaias the prophet: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare the way before thee.

Luke 1:76
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt, go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways:

Luke 7:26
But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet.

Luke 7:28
For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of men, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

Luke 7:26
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