For this is he of whom it is spoken by the Prophet Isaiah, saying, (A)The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: [a]make his paths straight.

(B)And this John had his garment of camel’s hair, and a girdle of a skin about his loins, his meat was also [b]locusts and wild honey.

(C)Then went out to him [c]Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 3:3 Make him a plain and smooth way.
  2. Matthew 3:4 Locusts were a kind of meat which certain of the East people use, which were therefore called devourers of Locusts. . . .
  3. Matthew 3:5 The people of Jerusalem.

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