So if they tell you, ‘Look, he's out in the desert,’ don't go looking there; or if they say, ‘Look, he's secretly here,’ don't believe it.
A voice is heard calling, “Prepare the way for the Lord in the wilderness, make a straight highway for our God through the desert.
Notice that I've told you this before it even happens.
For the coming of the Son of man will be like the lightning that flashes brightly from east to west.
Some time later John the Baptist appeared on the scene, proclaiming in the Judean desert,
“Aren't you the Egyptian who recently incited a rebellion and led four thousand Assassins into the desert?”