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23 He said:

“I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,(A)
“Make straight the way of the Lord,”’[a]

as Isaiah the prophet said.”

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  1. 1:23 This is a repunctuation and reinterpretation (as in the synoptic gospels and Septuagint) of the Hebrew text of Is 40:3 which reads, “A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the Lord.”

23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,(A) ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”[a](B)

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  1. John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3