2. As it has been written by the prophet Isaiah: "Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.
3. The voice of one crying out in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths."
4. John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching a baptism of repentance, as a remission of sins.
5. And there went out to him all the region of Judea and all those of Jerusalem, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.