In those days John the Immerser came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

The voice of one crying out in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

while Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the Word of God came upon John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching an immersion of repentance for the remission of sins,

Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up trouble and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?