²⁶ “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.

^2 [a]while ^(A)Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of God came to ^(B)John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. ^3 (C)And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance ^(D)for the remission of sins,

^38 (A)Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a rebellion and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”

John the Baptist Prepares the Way^(A)

3 In those days ^(B)John the Baptist came preaching ^(C)in the wilderness of Judea,