²⁶ If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' don't believe it.

³⁸ 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?"

³ The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God.

¹ In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

² in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

³ He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.