Mal 3:1, Luk 1:15-17 | ESV | STEP | Behold , I send my messenger , and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple ; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight , behold , he is coming , says the Lord of hosts .

p ch. 7:27; Mal. 3:1; Matt. 11:10; Mark 1:2

Malachi 3:1

1 ^a“Behold, I send ^bmy messenger, and ^che will prepare the way before me. And the Lord ^dwhom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and ^ethe messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 1:15-17

15 for he will be ^fgreat before the Lord. And ^ghe must not drink wine or strong ^hdrink, and ⁱhe will be ^jfilled with the Holy Spirit, ^keven from his mother’s womb. 16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, 17 and ^lhe will go before him ^min the spirit and power of Elijah, ⁿto turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and ^othe disobedient to the wisdom of the just, ^pto make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”