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.
Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”
In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming,
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.