“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.
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.
In those days, John the Immerser came proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,
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?”