Malachi 3:1
"Look! I [am] going to send my messenger, and he will prepare [the] way {before me}. And the Lord whom you [are] seeking will come suddenly to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, [in] whom you [are] taking pleasure--look!--[he is] about to come," says Yahweh of hosts.
Malachi 4:5
Look! I [am] going to send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh!
Isaiah 63:9
In all their distress, {there was no distress}, and the messenger of his {presence} saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all [the] days of old.
Luke 1:76
And so you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go on before the Lord to prepare his ways,
John 1:6-7
A man came, sent from God, {whose name was} John.
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look! the virgin [is] with child and she is about to give birth [to] a son, and she shall call his name 'God with us.'
Isaiah 9:6
For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Genesis 48:15-16
And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked, The God who shepherded me {all my life} unto this day,
Exodus 23:20
" 'Look, I [am about to] send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
Psalm 110:1
A declaration of Yahweh to my lord, "Sit at my right [hand] until I make your enemies your footstool."
Haggai 2:7-9
I will shake all the nations so that the treasure of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house [with] glory,' says Yahweh of hosts.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of [the] priest should guard knowledge, and they should seek instruction from his mouth, for he [is] the messenger of Yahweh of hosts.
Matthew 3:1-3
Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the Judean wilderness
Matthew 11:10-11
It is this man about whom it is written: 'Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'
Matthew 17:10-13
And the disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
Mark 1:2-3
Just as it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,
Luke 1:16-17
And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God.
Luke 2:11
that today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born for you in the city of David.
Luke 2:21-32
And when eight days were completed {so that he could be circumcised}, he was named Jesus, his name [that] [he] was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Luke 2:38
And at [that] same hour she approached [and] began to give thanks to God, and to speak about him to all those who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
Luke 2:46
And it happened that after three days they found him in the temple [courts], sitting in the midst of the teachers and listening to them and asking them [questions].
Luke 3:3-6
And he went into all the surrounding region of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
Luke 7:19-20
sent [them] to the Lord, saying, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?"
Luke 7:26-28
But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet!
Luke 19:47
And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.
John 1:15-23
John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"
John 1:33-34
And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, '[The one] upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him--this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'
John 2:14-16
And he found in the temple [courts] those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated.
John 3:28-30
You yourselves testify about me that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I am sent before that one.'
Acts 7:38
This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and who [with] our fathers received living oracles to give to us,
Acts 13:24-25
Before {his coming} John had publicly proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
Acts 19:4
And Paul said, "John baptized [with] a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the one who was to come after him--that is, in Jesus."
Isaiah 40:3-5
A voice [is] calling in the wilderness, "Clear the way of Yahweh! Make a highway smooth in the desert for our God!
Hosea 12:3-5
In the womb he deceived his brother, and in his manhood he struggled with God.