“So if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. Or, ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
A voice cries out in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of Adonai, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Then you’re not the Egyptian who stirred up a rebellion some time ago—and led four thousand men of the Assassins out into the desert?”
In those days, John the Immerser came proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,
See, I have told you beforehand.
For just as lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.