Bible Verses About Prophets

And Zacharias his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and did prophesy, saying,

As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age;

And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name is Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,

and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit--not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord.

And he came in the Spirit to the temple, and in the parents bringing in the child Jesus, for their doing according to the custom of the law regarding him,

And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity,

Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests--there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,

and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:

and he said, `Verily I say to you--No prophet is accepted in his own country;

and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,

and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but--to Sarepta of Sidon, unto a woman, a widow;

and many lepers were in the time of Elisha the prophet, in Israel, and none of them was cleansed, but--Naaman the Syrian.'

that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

and he said to them, `These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

There came a man--having been sent from God--whose name is John,

Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, `Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth;'

for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;

and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,

and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them,

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

`But this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel:

for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me--because He is on my right hand--that I may not be moved;

a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;