If therefore they should say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth; Behold, in the store-houses, believe ye not.
The voice of him calling in the desert, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the sterile region a highway for our God.
Art not thou then the Egyptian, who before these days having risen up, and having brought into the desert four thousand men of murderers?
In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert of Judea;
Behold, I have told you beforehand.
For as the lightning comes forth from the sunrisings, and shines to the descents; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man.