“So, if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert,’ do not go there; or, ‘Look, He is in the private chambers,’ do not believe it.
The voice of him who cries out, “Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
See, I have told you beforehand.
For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
Are you not the Egyptian who in past days caused an uproar and led the four thousand men of the Sicarii out into the wilderness?”