Bible Verses About Prophets

Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:

as He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past,

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

Led by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for Him what was customary under the Law,

There was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was well along in years. She had been married for seven years,

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:

Then He added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”

There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.