And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,

A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.

Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests -- there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,

and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,

art not thou, then, the Egyptian who before these days made an uprising, and did lead into the desert the four thousand men of the assassins?'