And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,
      In the Luke 1:80, we have short account of the younger years of John Baptist. Though he was the son of a priest, he did not, like Samuel, go up, when he was a child, to minister before the Lord; for he was to prepare the way for a better priesthood. But we are here told,