The voyce of a cryer in the wildernes prepare the waye of the Lord: make hys pathes strayghte.
This is he of whom it is spoken by the prophete Esaye which sayeth: The voice of a cryer in wildernes prepare the Lordes way and make his pathes, strayt.
Iohn bare witnes of him & cried saiyng: This was he of whom I spake, he that cometh after me was before me, because he was yer then I.
In those dayes Iohn the Baptist came and preached in the wyldernes of Iury
when Anna and Cayphas were the hye pryestes: the word of God came vuto Iohn the sonne of Zacharias in the wildernes.