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As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
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When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.
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And he came into all the country round about Jordan, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.
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As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
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Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;