Luke 1:76
1:76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High.
For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
Luke 7:26-29
7:26 What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more
than a prophet.
7:27 This is the one about whom it is written, ‘
Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’
7:28 I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater
than John.
Yet the one who is least
in the kingdom of God
is greater than he is.”
7:29 (Now
all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors,
acknowledged
God’s justice, because they had been baptized
with John’s baptism.
Matthew 14:5
14:5 Although
Herod
wanted to kill John,
he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.
Matthew 21:26
21:26 But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”
John 10:41
10:41 Many
came to him and began to say, “John
performed
no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man
was true!”