“A voice cries out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!’ ”
Later, John the Baptizer appeared in the desert of Judea. His message was,
Isaiah the prophet spoke about this man when he said, “A voice cries out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!’ ”
It was at the time when Annas and Caiaphas were chief priests that God spoke to John, son of Zechariah, in the desert.
(John declared the truth about him when he said loudly, “This is the person about whom I said, ‘The one who comes after me was before me because he existed before I did.’ ”)