"I," he answered, "am--'The voice of one crying aloud in the Wilderness--"straighten the way of the Lord"', as the Prophet Isaiah said."
This is he who was spoken of in the Prophet Isaiah, where he says--'The voice of one crying aloud in the Wilderness: "Make ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight."'
'The voice of one crying aloud in the Wilderness: "Make ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight."'
"Who then are you?" they continued; "tell us, that we may have some answer to give to those who have sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
These men had been sent from the Pharisees;
You are yourselves witnesses that I said 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I have been sent before him as a Messenger.'