Bible Verses About Prophets

And Zachary his father was filled with the Holy Ghost. And he prophesied, saying:

As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the beginning.

And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was in him.

And he had received an answer from the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.

And he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when his parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the law,

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity.

Under the high priests Anna and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert.

And the book of Isaias the prophet was delivered unto him. And as he unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written:

And he said: Amen I say to you that no prophet is accepted in his own country.

In truth I say to You, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth.

And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman.

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.

That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets; and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, concerning me.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Philip findeth Nathanael and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.

For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming: and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And there appeared to them parted tongues, as it were of fire: and it sat upon every one of them.

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.

But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel:

For David saith concerning him: I foresaw the Lord before my face: because he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved.

Whereas therefore he was a prophet and knew that God hath sworn to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon his throne.

But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.