Luke 3:4

Coverdale Bible (1535)

As it is wrytte in ye boke of ye sayenges of Esaye the prophet, which sayeth: The voyce of a cryer in the wyldernes: prepare the waye of the LORDE, and make his pathes straight.

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  • Isa 40:3-5 : 3 A voyce crieth: Prepare ye waye for the LORDE in the wyldernesse, make straight ye path for oure God in the deserte. 4 Let all valleis be exalted, and euery mountayne and hill be layde lowe. What so is croked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made playne feldes. 5 For the glory of the LORDE shal apeare, & all flesh shal se it, for why, ye mouth of the LORDE hath spoken it.
  • John 1:23 : 23 He sayde: I am ye voyce of a cryer in the wyldernesse. Make straight ye waye of the LORDE. As ye prophet Esay sayde:
  • John 1:26-36 : 26 Ihon answered them, and sayde: I baptyse with water, but there is one come in amonge you, whom ye knowe not. 27 It is he that cometh after me, which was before me: whose shue lachet I am not worthy to vnlowse. 28 This was done at Bethabara beyonde Iordane, where Ihon dyd baptyse. 29 The nexte daye after, Ihon sawe Iesus commynge vnto him, and sayde: Beholde the labe of God, which taketh awaye the synne of the worlde. 30 This is he, of whom I sayde vnto you: After me commeth a man, which was before me. For he was or euer I, 31 and I knewe him not: but that he shulde be declared in Israel, therfore am I come to baptyse with water. 32 And Ihon bare recorde, & sayde: I sawe the sprete descende from heauen like vnto a doue, and abode vpon him, 33 & I knewe him not. But he that sent me to baptyse with water, ye same sayde vnto me: Vpon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende and tary styll on him, the same is he, that baptyseth with the holy goost. 34 And I sawe it, and bare recorde, that this is the sonne of God. 35 The nexte daye after, Ihon stode agayne, and two of his disciples. 36 And wha he sawe Iesus walkynge, he sayde: Beholde the labe of God.
  • John 3:28-36 : 28 Ye youreselues are my witnesses, how that I sayde, I am not Christ, but am sent before him. 29 He that hath the bryde, is the brydegrome: but the frende of the brydegrome stondeth, and herkeneth vnto him, and reioyseth greatly ouer the voyce of the brydegrome, this same ioye of myne is now fulfilled. 30 He must increace, but I must decreace. 31 He that commeth from an hye, is aboue all. He that is of the earth, is earthly, and speaketh of the earth. He that commeth fro heauen, is aboue all, 32 and testifieth what he hath sene & herde, and no man receaueth his wytnesse. 33 But he that receaueth it, hath set to his seale, that God is true. 34 For he who God hath sent, speaketh ye wordes of God: for God geueth not the sprete (vnto him) by measure. 35 The father loueth the sonne, and hath geuen him all thinges in to his hande. 36 He that beleueth on the sonne, hath euerlastinge life: he that beleueth not the sonne, shal not se the life, but ye wrath of God abydeth vpon him.
  • Isa 57:14 : 14 And therfore thus he saieth: Make redy, make redy, and clense ye strete, take vp what ye can out of the waye, that ledeth to my people.
  • Isa 62:10 : 10 Stode back, & departe a sunder, ye yt stonde vnder ye gate, make rowme ye people, repayre the strete, & take awaye ye stones, & set out a toke for the people.
  • Mal 4:6 : 6 He shall turne the hertes of the fathers to their children and the hertes of the children to their fathers, that I come not, and smyte the earth with cursynge.
  • Matt 3:3 : 3 This is he, of whom it is spoke by ye Prophet Esay, which sayeth: The voyce of a cryer in ye wyldernes, prepare the LORDES waye, and make his pathes straight.
  • Mark 1:3 : 3 The voyce of a cryer is in the wyldernes: Prepare the waye of the LORDE, make his pathes straight.
  • Luke 1:16-17 : 16 And many of the children of Israel shal he turne vnto the LORDE their God. 17 And he shal go before him in the sprete and power of Elias, to turne the hertes of ye fathers vnto the children, and the vnfaithfull vnto the wyssdome of the righteous, to make the people ready for the LORDE.
  • Luke 1:76-79 : 76 And thou childe shalt be called a prophet of the Hyest: for thou shalt go before ye LORDE, to prepare his wayes. 77 And to geue knowlege of saluacion vnto his people, for the remyssion of their synnes. 78 Thorow the tender mercy of oure God, wherby the daye sprynge from an hye hath vysited vs. 79 That he might geue light vnto them yt syt in darcknesse and shadowe of death, and to gyde oure fete in to the waye of peace.
  • John 1:7 : 7 The same came for a witnesse, to beare wytnesse of ye light, that thorow him they all might beleue.

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    2 as it is wrytte in the prophetes. Beholde, I sende my messauger before thy face, which shal prepare thy waye before the.

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    4 Ihon was in the wyldernes, and baptysed, and preached the baptyme of amendment, for the remyssion of synnes.

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    1 In those dayes Ihon the Baptyst came and preached in the wildernes of Iury,

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    5 Euery valley shalbe fylled, and euery mountayne & hyll shalbe brought lowe. And what so is croked, shalbe made straight: and what rough is, shalbe made smooth,

    6 and all flesh shal se the Sauioure of God.

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  • Mark 1:9-11
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