The Lord spoke concerning Babylon and the land of Babylonia ¹  through the prophet Jeremiah. ² 

This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled:

Although ¹  Herod ²  wanted to kill John, ³  he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds ¹  regarded him as a prophet.

When they heard these words, some of the crowd ¹  began to say, “This really ²  is the Prophet!” ³ 

Yet the Most High ¹  does not live in houses made by human hands, ²  as the prophet says,

All this took ¹  about four hundred fifty years. After this ²  he gave them judges until the time of ³  Samuel the prophet.

“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ¹  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people who were living in Jerusalem. ¹ 

Every person ¹  who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed ²  from the people.’ ³ 

While we remained there for a number of days, ¹  a prophet named Agabus ²  came down from Judea.

So they asked him, “Then who are you? ¹  Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not!” ²  “Are you the Prophet?” ³  He answered, “No!”

Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams ¹  should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder, ² 

Each of you should merely ask the prophet, ‘What answer did the Lord give you? Or what did the Lord say?’ ¹ 

You should have reprimanded Jeremiah from Anathoth who is pretending to be a prophet among you! ¹ 

When the prophet from Judah finished his meal, ¹  the old prophet saddled his visitor’s donkey for him. ² 

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus ¹  performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet ²  who is to come into the world.” ³ 

The old prophet ¹  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ²  put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him.

Amos replied ¹  to Amaziah, “I was not a prophet by profession. ²  No, ³  I was a herdsman who also took care of ⁴  sycamore fig trees. ⁵