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For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."
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Now John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
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Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan,
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and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
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