Mark 1:3
the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him' ??4 John appeared baptizing in the desert and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
Matthew 3:3
(This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.')
John 1:15
(John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.')
John 3:28-36
You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'
John 1:19-34
Now here is John's testimony. When the Jews of Jerusalem despatched priests and Levites to ask him, "Who are you?"