In those days John the Baptist arrived preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

in the time of the high priest Annas and [the high priest] Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

And he went into all the surrounding region of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

Are you not then the Egyptian who rose up before these days, and led forth the four thousand men of the assassins into the wilderness?"