“If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.
The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
“Behold, I have told you beforehand.
For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
In those days, Yochanan the Immerser came, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
Aren’t you then the Egyptian who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”