So, if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Take note, I have told you beforehand.
For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming,
Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”