The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;
And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,
For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.
John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.