²⁶ So, if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.

³⁸ Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”^(A)

² during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.^{(A) 3} He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

The Proclamation of John the Baptist

3 In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming,