What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from long ago,

But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.’

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

And he added, “I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

while others were saying that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had risen.

Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the scriptures.

and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

They answered, “John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others that one of the prophets of long ago has risen.”

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

He replied to him, ‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

So he said to them, “You foolish people – how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.

Rejoice in that day, and jump for joy, because your reward is great in heaven. For their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.