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.
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.
In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert of Judea;
Art not thou then the Egyptian, who before these days having risen up, and having brought into the desert four thousand men of murderers?