^{2 Ref} Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests -- there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,

^{3 Ref} and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,

^{4 Ref} as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths;

^{5 Ref} every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straightness, and the rough become smooth ways;

^{6 Ref} and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'