“So if someone tells you, ‘Look, the Messiah is out in the desert,’ don’t bother to go and look. Or, ‘Look, he is hiding here,’ don’t believe it!
Listen! It’s the voice of someone shouting, “Clear the way through the wilderness for the Lord! Make a straight highway through the wasteland for our God!
See, I have warned you about this ahead of time.
For as the lightning flashes in the east and shines to the west, so it will be when the Son of Man comes.
In those days John the Baptist came to the Judean wilderness and began preaching. His message was,
“Aren’t you the Egyptian who led a rebellion some time ago and took 4,000 members of the Assassins out into the desert?”