Good News TranslationFor 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 says about him, "I am sending my messenger ahead to get things ready for you."
New American Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way before you.’
Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before my face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before my face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.
Matthew 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.
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 Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
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 7:26,27 But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet. . . .
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.