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“Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!” This is the man Yesha‘yahu was talking about when he said,

“The voice of someone crying out:
‘In the desert prepare the way of Adonai!
Make straight paths for him!’”[a]

Yochanan wore clothes of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:3 Isaiah 40:3

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