Wen John ansa um, e tell um wa de prophet Isaiah been say. John say, “A de one wa da holla een de wildaness say, ‘Mus mek de road scraight fa de Lawd pass by.’ ”
(De Sadducee dem say dat wen somebody done dead, e ain neba gwine lib gin. An dey say dey ain no angel needa no sperit. Bot de Pharisee dem bleebe dat wen somebody dead, e gwine lib gin. An dey bleebe een angel an sperit fa true.)
Dey been know me fa a long time, an ef dey wahn fa taak true, dey kin tell oona. A beena lib scraight, a good memba ob de Pharisee dem, de group dat mo den all oda group da folla dem rule bout de way we woshup God.