On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?
And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.
And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.
And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.
And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit:
But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.
See, I am sending you elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.
Now all this took place so that the word of the Lord by the prophet might come true,
And they said to him, In Beth-lehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet,
And was there till the death of Herod; so that the word of the Lord through the prophet might come true, Out of Egypt have I sent for my son.
Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true,
And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.
For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true,
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.
All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.
A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?
So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might come true: He himself took our pains and our diseases.
He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.
But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
For all the prophets and the law were in force till John.
So that what was said by Isaiah the prophet might come true,
But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:
For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.
That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.
And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.
And he would have put him to death, but for his fear of the people, because in their eyes John was a prophet.
And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
Now this took place so that these words of the prophet might come true,
And the people said, This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.
But if we say, From men; we are in fear of the people, because all take John to be a prophet.
And though they had a desire to take him, they were in fear of the people, because in their eyes he was a prophet.
On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,
If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.
So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
And a number of false prophets will come, causing error.
When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader),
For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.
But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.
Be a prophet, O Christ, and say who gave you a blow!
Then came true that which was said by Jeremiah the prophet, And they took the thirty bits of silver, the price of him who was valued by the children of Israel;
Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way;
And Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour, but in his country, and among his relations, and in his family.
But others said, It is Elijah. And others said, It is a prophet, even like one of the prophets.
And they made answer, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but others, One of the prophets.
But if we say, From men--they were in fear of the people, because all took John to be truly a prophet.
Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.
And his father, Zacharias, was full of the Holy Spirit, and with the voice of a prophet said these words:
(As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,)
And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;
And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life
As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.
And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian.
Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.
Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
And fear came on all, and they gave praise to God, saying, A great prophet is among us: and, God has given thought to his people.
But what did you go out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.
And by some, that elijah had come; and by others, that one of the old prophets had come back to life.
And they, answering, said, John the Baptist; but others say Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has come back.
For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.
A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.
For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;
So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;
There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.
But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.
But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.
And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.
And he took with him the twelve and said to them, Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things which were said by the prophets will be done to the Son of man.
But if we say, Of men; we will be stoned by the people, for they are certain that John was a prophet.
And, covering his eyes, they said to him, Are you prophet enough to say who gave you that blow?
And he said to them, What things? And they said, The things to do with Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, great in his acts and his words, before God and all the people:
And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.
And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.
And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.
And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?
Philip came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
The woman said to him, Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.
And when the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, Truly, this is the prophet who is to come into the world.
The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.
When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly the prophet.
This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.
The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.
Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you say that you are?
Again they said to the blind man, What have you to say about him for opening your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.
He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;
So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?
But this is the thing which was said by the prophet Joel;
And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:
And on my men-servants and my women-servants I will send my Spirit, and they will be prophets.
But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,
But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.
Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.
For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you.
And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.
And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.
You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.
This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.
But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?
But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,
Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;
He was going back, seated in his carriage, and was reading the book of the prophet Isaiah.
And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you?
And the Ethiopian said to Philip, About whom are these words said by the prophet? about himself, or some other?
To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.
Now in those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of herod the king, and Saul.
And when they had gone through all the island to Paphos, they came across a certain wonder-worker and false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus;
And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of comfort for the people, say on.
And after these things he gave them judges, till the time of Samuel the prophet.
For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.
So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you;
And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said,
And Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, gave teaching to the brothers and made them strong in the faith.
And when Paul had put his hands on them, the Holy spirit came on them; and they had the power of talking in tongues, and acting like prophets.
And he had four daughters, virgins, who were prophets.
And while we were waiting there for some days, a certain prophet, named Agabus, came down from Judaea.
But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets:
And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about;
King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.
And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.
And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,
Of which God had given word before by his prophets in the holy Writings,
But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;
Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.
And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;
But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;
Every man who takes part in prayer, or gives teaching as a prophet, with his head covered, puts shame on his head.
And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:
And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.
Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?
And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.
For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true:
Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.
But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength.
He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.
Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.
But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?
For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.
But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all;
And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.
For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort;
And the spirits of the prophets are controlled by the prophets;
If any man seems to himself to be a prophet or to have the Spirit, let him take note of the things which I am writing to you, as being the word of the Lord.
So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.
Resting on the base of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;
Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;
Do not make little of the words of the prophets;
This order I give to you, Timothy my son, in harmony with the words of the prophets about you, so that by them you may be strong, fighting the good fight,
Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you.
One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.
In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;
What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:
Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;
And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.
And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;
Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets.
For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.
But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.
So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.
My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.
The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints,
A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near.
But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when the sound of his horn is about to come, then will the secret of God be complete, of which he gave the good news to his servants the prophets.
And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.
These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.
And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.
And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.
For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.
And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, like frogs.
Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.
And in her was seen the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.
And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.
And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.
And he said to me, These words are certain and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to make clear to his servants the things which are now to come about.
See, I come quickly. A blessing on him who keeps the words of this book of the prophet.
And he said to me, See you do it not; I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: give worship to God.
And he said to me, Let not the words of this prophet's book be kept secret, because the time is near.
For I say to every man to whose ears have come the words of this prophet's book, If any man makes an addition to them, God will put on him the punishments which are in this book:
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