John 1:23

Good News Translation (US Version)

John answered by quoting the prophet Isaiah: “I am ‘the voice of someone shouting in the desert: Make a straight path for the Lord to travel!’”

Cross References

Mark 1:3

Someone is shouting in the desert, ‘Get the road ready for the Lord; make a straight path for him to travel!’”

Matthew 3:3

John was the man the prophet Isaiah was talking about when he said, “Someone is shouting in the desert, ‘Prepare a road for the Lord; make a straight path for him to travel!’”

John 3:28

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.’

John 1:22

“Then tell us who you are,” they said. “We have to take an answer back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

John 1:24

The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees,