76And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
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Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. …
As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. …
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 67-80)We have here the song wherewith Zacharias praised God when his mouth was opened ; in it he is said to prophesy (Luke 1:67), and so he did in the strictest sense of prophesying ; for he foretold things to come concerning the kingdom of the Messiah, to which all the prophets bear witness. Observe, I. How he was qualified for this: He was filled with the Holy Ghost , was endued with more than ordinar…
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